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The 35th Cheviots Challenge, a fund-raising event in aid of the Northumberland National Park Mountain Rescue Team (NNPMRT), will take place at the start of next month.
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The 35th Cheviots Challenge, a fund-raising event in aid of the Northumberland National Park Mountain Rescue Team (NNPMRT), will take place at the start of next month.
The event, on Saturday, September 3, starts and finishes at the Rose & Thistle Inn, Alwinton, and is designed as a personal challenge that is accessible to all with a good level of fitness.
NNPMRT members will be in strategic places along the routes to provide encouragement and light refreshments and ensure the safe running of the event.
It costs £20 to enter and there is a choice of two routes – the Terry Lynn long route is about 23 miles long and includes more than 3,500 feet of climbing, while the Eileen Lynn short route is about 18 miles long and features more than 2,600 feet of climbing.
On the day of the event, you will receive a route card and a photocopied map giving details of the route.
Checkpoints along the route must be visited before the closing time shown on the route card. They can provide first aid and one or more will provide refreshments.
Participants completing the event between 8am and 8pm will be awarded, upon presentation of a completed route card, a certificate and souvenir mug.
The closing date for online entries is Wednesday. If you miss this deadline, it is possible to turn up and enter on the day.
NNPMRT provides a search and rescue service in an operational area of 2,159 square miles, which includes the whole of Northumberland. The Cheviots Challenge raises about £3,000 of the £20,000 needed each year to keep the team operational.
For more information or to enter, visit http://nnpmrt.org/news-events/cheviots-challenge-2016_main-page/
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I can’t believe the delightful Howick Village show is just two days away and that most crops are at the peak of summer growth.
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I can’t believe the delightful Howick Village show is just two days away and that most crops are at the peak of summer growth.
But August is almost upon us and that means greater vigilance in watering, watching out for pest attacks, weeding and generally keeping the show that is our garden firmly on the road.
All containers need daily attention, even twice daily when temperatures soar into the upper 20s Celsius as on two occasions last week.
First is the waterin, followed by the removal of faded blooms to encourage further bud production.
As the month progresses consider stepping up the food supplement to weekly doses.
It follows that ornamental border plants, other than annuals, may become stressed through lack of water, especially herbaceous perennials carrying a heavy load of foliage and bloom. Even when a deluge comes to the rescue, don’t assume that it will have a lasting effect.
Anything growing in a summer greenhouse demands top priority when it comes to watering. Tomatoes in pots can dry out twice daily, and the main disorder arising from that is blossom end rot.
It is caused not by a shortage of calcium in the compost, but by the absence of water, which is responsible for delivering it to the developing fruits.
Simply remove any affected tomatoes, keep on top of watering, avoid great fluctuations in temperature, and the problem is resolved.
Friend Adrian was puzzled recently when the leaves on two of his tomato plants suddenly developed white blotches whilst the other plants remained healthy.
It turned out that he’d been watering them overhead on a really hot day to cool everything down, as they stood under a shaft of sunlight.
In such conditions spots of water turn into magnifying glasses, burning through plant tissue. Removing the worst affected leaves enhances the crop appearance without affecting growth.
Similarly, we’ve reached a stage where excessive leaf growth can hinder the ripening process, even encourage botrytis.
Don’t be afraid to remove several lower leaves at a point close to the main stem to encourage air flow and increase light penetration.
It is well known that container-grown plants can, in theory, be introduced to a garden at any time of year, but at the height of summer there are risks involved.
Specimen trees, shrubs and perennials especially, planted around this time, demand water to settle-in, followed by continuous monitoring thereafter until you’re sure they’ve become established.
First check to see if the plant is pot-bound and if so, tease the roots apart before planting. Then water the hole, even before it receives the root-ball, and again when half the back-filling has occurred.
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The chief executive of Blyth Tall Ship project says that the four-day regatta will put the town on the map.
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The chief executive of Blyth Tall Ship project says that the four-day regatta will put the town on the map.
The ambitious project is restoring a 100-year-old Baltic Trader in a bid to recreate the original voyage of Captain William Smith that discovered the first land in Antarctica in 1819. Captain Smith’s vessel was built in Blyth after he raised funds to do so.
Clive Gray, chief executive of Blyth Tall Ship project.
As a result, Blyth Tall Ship is helping to transform the lives of young people through heritage boat-building. Volunteers – including unemployed teenagers and experienced maritime engineers – are working on the restoration project.
And speaking from the group’s workshop in the town, chief executive Clive Gray is delighted that Blyth is hosting the Tall Ships Regatta, which runs from today until Monday.
He said: “It’s one of the biggest things that has happened in the county. It shows that Blyth is mature enough and is in a good enough place to host something of this nature.
“It’s a fantastic event and it puts Blyth on the map. Long term, it will change the way that people think about the town and give people a lot of confidence in the town.”
For updates, pictures, videos and interviews from the regatta, follow our live feed throughout the weekend.
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A host of activities are taking place at Heighley Gate Garden Centre for children this summer, inspired by the Olympics in Rio.
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The judges will soon be meeting to decide which community champions will be honoured at this year’s Best of Northumberland awards, after the deadline for entries closed last week.
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The judges will soon be meeting to decide which community champions will be honoured at this year’s Best of Northumberland awards, after the deadline for entries closed last week.
And the winners will be announced and presented with their prizes during a glitzy ceremony at the Macdonald Linden Hall Country Club, Longhorsley, on the evening of Thursday, September 15.
The annual competition honours unsung community heroes who do amazing things.
Over the last few months, readers have been encouraged to nominate individuals and groups in the county who go above and beyond the call of duty and/or show incredible strength and courage in the face of adversity.
Organised by Northeast Press – publishers of the Northumberland Gazette, Morpeth Herald and News Post Leader – and Tweeddale Press’s Berwick Advertiser, the annual Best of Northumberland awards are a celebration of bravery, determination, commitment and achievement.
We have been looking for people who, in their everyday lives, manage to do something extraordinary for the benefit of themselves and others.
We have had a whole host of nominations across the 13 categories, which recognise a cross-section of local heroes.
The categories are Community Group; Community Champion; Sporting Achievement; Fund-raiser; Child of Achievement; Child of Courage; Green Champion; Role Model; Volunteer; Sports Team; Good Neighbour; Student; and Lifetime Contribution Award.
As part of this, Northumbrian Water is sponsoring the Sporting Achievement award, as well as the Sports Team prize. The company’s external relations manager Maureen Berne said: “We are delighted to support these awards. We have all been gripped by the excellent performances of our sports men and women at the Rio Olympics which will inspire the next generation of Olympians.
“Hydration is an important part of a healthy diet and even more so when taking part in sport. Our tap water is excellent quality, value for money and calorie free – a great sports drink. These awards are special as they mean so much to the people of Northumberland and we wish all the entrants the best of luck.”
The headline sponsor is The Banks Group, which is also sponsoring the Green Champion award. Other sponsors include Northumberland County Council and Northumberland College.
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Community artwork is to go on display as part of the Tall Ships Regatta.
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Community artwork is to go on display as part of the Tall Ships Regatta.
Local artist Michele Rickitt was inspired to develop a community art project in Blyth.
Teaming up with emerging artists Ann Marie Dalton, Denise Primrose and Jane Sutcliffe, they secured funding from Blyth Town Council and Arts Council England.
The four were all participants on the Future Creatives Enterprise Programme funded by bait, and the programme helped bring the team together and create the project.
The project culminates in an exhibition, “Blyth Community Sails”, in St Cuthbert’s C of E Church, Plessey Road, Blyth, from August 26 to 29.
The exhibition will be open each day from 10am to 4pm and on Sunday there will be a special service from 9.30am to 10.45am.
The artists have been delivering workshops in community groups and centres in Blyth, including Bright Beginnings in Northumberland, the Briardale, and the Buffalo.
The centrepiece of the exhibition is a set of three symbolic sails representing the ‘Past, Present, and Future’, which feature the art created during the workshops.
Alongside the sails there will be a display of Portholes created in a textiles workshop held at Weave in Lynemouth.
The team have been working closely with St Cuthbert’s Church, enabling groups that use the Church to produce work for the exhibition including an 11 foot long seascape collage and a flotilla of origami paper boats.
Ann Marie, Denise, and Jane worked with youth groups at the Buffalo Community Centre to create a site-specific art installation for their foyer, which is also going to be on display.
Michele said: “We have been delighted by the enthusiasm of everyone we’ve worked with during the project.
“People who wouldn’t normally take part in arts activities told us how much they have enjoyed the workshops, and that they would participate in more things like this.
“We wanted this project to connect the residents of Blyth to the Tall Ships Regatta using art, and I believe that we have succeeded thanks to the fantastic community engagement we’ve experienced.
“We would like to thank Blyth Town Council and Arts Council England for funding the project.
“We hope that visitors to the Regatta will see what the local community has achieved in just four months.”
• A final call is being made for two unsung heroes to be special guests at the Tall Ships celebrations.
The Commissioner’s Quay Inn at Blyth will be hosting an exclusive party with grandstand viewing of the ships and is looking for two people from the Blyth area who go the extra mile to help others.
You have until Monday, August 15, to send your nominations to Commissioners Quay Competition, News Post Leader, Unit 15, Telford Court, Loansdean, Morpeth NE61 2DB, or email news.leader@jpress.co.uk
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A section of the Port of Blyth is to open to the public for the first time in living memory.
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A section of the Port of Blyth is to open to the public for the first time in living memory.
Officials at the port will open one of the secure terminals as part of the North Sea Tall Ships Regatta.
A large area of the South Harbour terminal will open for the duration of the regatta to allow for a greater number of ships to be included in the August Bank Holiday event and to ensure the public can get to see them.
Visitors will get unique access to an area normally closed to the public with the chance to see plenty of what goes on within a working port.
In addition to the historic ships, there will be several naval vessels, a number of RAF helicopters and a host of food and entertainment stalls.
Pedestrians will be able to access the terminal from two entrances – one on Wensleydale Terrace, via the Ridley Park car park, and the other from Quay Road, adjacent to the Blyth Boathouse Restaurant. The Tall Ships located in South Harbour will be just a few minutes’ walk from those hosted on the public Dun Cow and Commissioners Quays.
Chief executive Martin Lawlor said: “Opening our doors to the public is going to be a big moment for us as it is the first time in living memory we’ve done so.
“Obviously some areas will be fenced off to ensure safety and to allow us to continue with some work but we hope the attractions in the open area and the chance to see behind the scenes will prove popular with both local residents and visitors.”
In addition, Blyth Harbour Commission has announced some restrictions to access at the north end of Blyth’s South Beach for the duration of the event. West Pier and some surroundings areas will be closed from 8am on Thursday 25th August until 6pm on Monday 29th August, while access to and from the beach east of the bandstand area of South Beach will also be closed.
Capt Martin Willis, Harbour Master, said: “Public safety will be our number one priority for the duration of the Tall Ships Regatta.
“We would ask the public to respect these closures and understand that they are in place for everyone’s safety.
“Although we understand that the West Pier and the surrounding areas are popular with the public, the risk to public safety is considered too great to have these areas open whilst so many people are in Blyth for the event.
“There are many other excellent viewing locations both within Blyth and the surrounding coastline for all to enjoy the spectacle of seeing these wonderful vessels.”
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The Coquet Shorebase Trust has received a grant from The Banks Community Fund which has enabled them to purchase six stand-up paddleboards.
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The Coquet Shorebase Trust has received a grant from The Banks Community Fund which has enabled them to purchase six stand-up paddleboards.
The new equipment is for the trust’s building at Druridge Bay Country Park and will be available for hire on the lake, adding a new dimension to the hire fleet, which is mainly sit-on-top kayaks and open canoes.
There are four one-person boards, ideal for beginners, and two 17 foot long XL Rides. These need at least four people and can take up to eight adults.
But it is not just about paddling the boards, they are great fun for groups of friends, but be prepared to get wet. Wetsuits and buoyancy aids are provided.
To try out the new equipment, contact the Coquet Shorebase on (01665) 710367, Monday to Friday, from 9am to 1pm, or email info@coquetshorebase.org.uk
The trust also hire out sailing dinghies and windsurfers, but only to those with previous experience. For are a beginner, the trust can arrange tuition.
More information at www.coquetshorebase.org.uk
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Ships crews - real and make-believe - paraded through the streets of Blyth today.
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TALL SHIPS SLIDESHOW: Crews and colourful characters on parade
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Ships crews - real and make-believe - paraded through the streets of Blyth today.
More than 1,000 crew and local people took part in a fabulous event to commemorate the second day of the Tall Ships coming to Northumberland.
The Tall Ships crew and community parade. Picture by John Tuttiett Photography
Crews from the 23 ships berthed in the town for the four-day spectacular wound their way through their adopted home.
Alongside the uniformed crews were bands of pirates, Vikings and even a kilted Scot on a mobility scooter
The Blyth Carnival, organised by Headway Arts, was part of an exciting cultural programme of events for The North Sea Tall Ships Regatta Blyth 2016 thanks to support from the Arts Council England. The carnival last took place in the late 1980s.
Regatta organisers secured £120,000 from Arts Council England and National Lottery funded Grants for the Arts programme to support the plans which include the re-imagining of the carnival.
The grant is also supporting the large scale evening performances of music, image and pyrotechnics complemented as well as international street theatre, music and circus over the August bank holiday event.
Coun Val Tyler, cabinet member for arts, leisure and culture, Northumberland County Council: “It’s been another amazing day in Blyth, with the carnival and crew parade being a personal highlight - the efforts by everyone involved was very evident from the smiles on the faces of everyone who came.”
Martin Lawlor, chief executive, Port of Blyth said: “The Regatta is in full-swing now and today has been extremely popular with visitors coming from near and far to see the ships and enjoy all the entertainment. It really is an impressive sight.”
Alan Ferguson, chairman of Fergusons of Blyth, the event’s principal sponsor, said: “The sights, sounds and colour of the Regatta today have been truly memorable and testament to all the hard work which has gone on in the run-up to and during the Regatta."
Lisa O’Connor, from Blyth, said: “I want to say what a spectacular event my home town Blyth has put on for us. The organisers have done an amazing job - made us all proud of this town. The organisers certainly planned this event amazing. Thank you for a wonderful time, fireworks, etc. You made us all proud of our home town.”
The county council, in partnership with the Port of Blyth and Sail Training International, is hosting the prestigious Regatta. Fergusons of Blyth, one of the UK’s leading privately-owned haulage companies and the biggest in the North East, is the principal sponsor in celebration of its 90th anniversary.
The Regattat will be open until 10pm today and Sunday and 5pm on Monday.
Visitors can still benefit from the discounted event parking rate of £5 (+50p booking fee) until midnight the night before the day they wish to attend, by visiting http://www.tallshipsblyth2016.com/parkandride#info Or parking is £10 cash only on the day.
There is no event parking in Blyth town centre over the weekend but an extensive park and ride system is in operation. For full details visit www.tallshipsblyth2016.com
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A maritime artist has created his own personal recognition to the Blyth Tall Ships Regatta.
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A maritime artist has created his own personal recognition to the Blyth Tall Ships Regatta.
Edwin Blackburn has produced a painting of the Williams II tall ship, as well as a limited edition print run, both of which will be on show among his exhibition due to open this weekend.
Money from the exhibition and sales of the print will go towards the Tall Ship project.
The charity is helping to uncover the history of Blyth and re-acting the voyage of discovery of Antarctica 200 years on in a wooden Tall Ship that the charity’s trainees and volunteers are refitting.
Edwin was inspired to support the charity by donating the proceeds of the sale of the original painting depicting “The Williams II approaching Blyth harbour”.
Edwin said: “I’m proud to be involved and help the charity in my own small way.”
The exhibition ‘Tall Ships and the Northumberland Coast’ will be held at The Blagdon Gallery, Milkhope Centre, from Sunday until the end of the Regatta.
Signed Limited Edition prints also available direct from the Blyth Tall Ship Organisation and Frameworks Gallery, Blyth.
Clive Gray, chief executive of Blyth Tall Ship, said: “We are hugely grateful to Edwin.
“This is a real honour for Blyth Tall Ship and recognises the great work our community volunteers, supporters, trainees and staff are doing to change perceptions and inspire different futures in Blyth.”
The project trains 50 young people and volunteers a year in Heritage Boat building skills at NVQ Level and working with archive and museum volunteers, is also conserving, digitising and sharing, the archives of the Port of Blyth.
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Morpeth’s Bobbie Griffiths has been selected to compete at the 2016 School Games – a national multi-sport event for the UK’s elite young athletes – taking place at Loughborough University from September 1 to 4.
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Morpeth’s Bobbie Griffiths has been selected to compete at the 2016 School Games – a national multi-sport event for the UK’s elite young athletes – taking place at Loughborough University from September 1 to 4.
The 15-year-old KEVI pupil will represent the north east in the javelin competition.
Griffiths, who trains at Morpeth Harriers, will be following in the footsteps of some of Britain’s biggest sporting stars who have competed at the event before going on to senior international success.
Previous competitors include Olympic gold medallist and world-record breaking swimmer Adam Peaty, Paralympic champions Hannah Cockroft, Ellie Simmonds and Jonnie Peacock, heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson and GB sprinter Adam Gemili.
She said: “I’m really excited and happy to have been selected for the School Games 2016. I’m looking forward to competing up against other athletes from all over the UK.”
At the event, Griffiths will experience the excitement of competing at the highest level. She will live within the Athletes’ Village, attend spectacular opening and closing ceremonies and perform in front of a crowd of thousands.
A total of 1,600 athletes will compete across 12 sports at the event, seven of which include disability disciplines.
The four-day spectacular is supported by National Lottery funding from Sport England and delivered by the Youth Sport Trust.
There is a full education programme for the athletes running throughout the event which aims to give them an insight on life at the very highest level of sporting competition.
Loughborough University will host 11 of the sports at the 2016 School Games as well as providing an Olympic style athletes village, which will give competitors a real flavour of a major multi-sport event.
For the full list of sports visit www.2016schoolgames.com/
Tickets are currently on sale for all sport at the 2016 School Games. To book visit www.2016schoolgames.com/tickets
The 2016 School Games are supported by a range of partners including the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Sport England, the Youth Sport Trust, Department of Health, British Paralympic Association and Leicester-Shire and Rutland Sport.
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Health services are working with organisers to ensure the right NHS services are available during the North Sea Tall Ships Regatta.
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Health services are working with organisers to ensure the right NHS services are available during the North Sea Tall Ships Regatta.
Thousands of visitors are expected to visit Blyth during the Tall Ships event, with local NHS officials reminding people to keep hydrated by drinking plenty of water and apply sun cream during hot or humid weather.
A number of first aid posts will be based on the Tall Ships site throughout the event to help deal with any minor injuries and a range of other NHS services are available.
People are also being urged to plan ahead and order any repeat prescriptions they will need well in advance from their GP for the bank holiday weekend.
Local pharmacies will be open during the weekend.
There will be road and parking restrictions, as well as a one-way system in place during the event however emergency access and access for community, social care staff and carers for home visits will be maintained at all times.
Organisers and health providers are advising people to enjoy themselves and to be safe in the sun or the water.
Dr Alistair Blair, chief clinical officer for Northumberland Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), said: “The Tall Ships Regatta promises to be a fantastic event for people living locally and visitors and we want everyone to enjoy themselves and stay safe.
“We’d urge people to look after themselves by keeping well hydrated, applying sunscreen and sticking to shaded areas where possible and as we do not know what the weather will throw at us, be prepared for all eventualities and bring extra layers and waterproofs.
“If drinking alcohol, we would advise people to do so in moderation and drink water regularly.
“As with all bank holidays, we’d urge people to plan ahead and make sure they have all the medications they need for the weekend. It you need more over-the-counter medication or advice from a pharmacist, it’s worth remembering that there are pharmacies open all weekend, including bank holiday Monday.
“NHS 111 is available 24/7 as normal for urgent medical advice and we’d ask people to use the NHS wisely and leave urgent and emergency care services for those who need them most.”
Coun Val Tyler, Cabinet member for Arts, Leisure and Culture at Northumberland County Council, said: “We are expecting lots of residents and visitors in Blyth for this incredibly exciting event and we would like everyone to have an enjoyable and healthy weekend.
“Traffic controls will be in place to ease congestion and emergency access will be maintained at all times, including to the hospital and GP services in Blyth.
“Our Park and Ride car parks will have regular shuttle buses that will take visitors to the heart of the Regatta and tickets can be booked now at a discounted rate via the Tall Ships website.”
Limited Blue Badge parking is available but must be pre-booked by calling Ticketline on 0161 832 1111.
Martin Lawlor, chief executive, Port of Blyth, said: “We want visitors to the Tall Ships Regatta to have a great visit and we echo the advice of health services for people to have a great weekend and to take sensible precautions such as preparing for the weather.”
Up to 30 Tall Ships are expected to gather at Blyth for the event which takes place over the August bank holiday weekend August 26 to 29, and features five zones of free family entertainment, including nightly fireworks.
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The soldier who was shot and killed at the Otterburn Training Area has been named by the Ministry of Defence.
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The soldier who was shot and killed at the Otterburn Training Area has been named by the Ministry of Defence.
Private Conor McPherson, from The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland, died while taking part in a night live firing exercise on Monday at the Northumberland facility.
Private McPherson, from Paisley, Renfrewshire, in Scotland, was 24. He enlisted into the Royal Regiment of Scotland in May 2014 as a combat infantryman. After completing his training at the Infantry Training Centre in Catterick he was posted to The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, based at Fort George, Inverness, in February 2015.
Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Alasdair Steele, said: "Private McPherson was a capable young soldier who had previously trained in both Kenya and France. He was hugely committed about his career in the Army, he had aspirations to join the Machine Gun platoon and attend a junior leadership course at the start of next year.
"He constantly drove to develop himself physically and was well liked among his peers for his sharp wit and sense of humour. However, Private McPherson’s true passion was to his parents and his older sister – he was part of a very close knit family, and his great joy was spending time with them at the weekends and over leave. The entire Battalion’s thoughts are very much with his family and friends."
Yesterday, Armed Forces Minister Mike Penning paid his tributes and said that 'safety of our personnel is our absolute priority'. Inquiries are ongoing to establish the circumstances behind the incident, but a Northumbria Police spokeswoman said that, at this stage, it is believed that it was a tragic accident and there are no suspicious circumstances. A joint investigation is underway between police and the Health and Safety Executive, which is being fully supported by the Ministry of Defence and the British Army.
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Police will be on hand to help visitors to the Tall Ships Regatta this weekend.
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Police will be on hand to help visitors to the Tall Ships Regatta this weekend.
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to turn out for the four-day event at Blyth as the race celebrates its 60th anniversary.
Officers from Northumbria Police are supporting the event organisers and will be on duty to offer advice and reassurance to attendees.
The local Neighbourhood Policing Team will be on duty and will be highly visible in Blyth while the Dog Section will also be on duty to introduce visitors to the new puppy recruits.
And the Force’s Marine Unit will be out on patrol to help keep the port secure and respond to any incidents on the water.
Sergeant Suzanne Crossley, who runs the unit, said: “We are really excited to be part of the Tall Ships and there is going to be a real buzz around the town.
“Everyone in the Marine Unit is looking forward to being a part of it and we will make sure we give everyone a wave from our boat which will be patrolling the water over the course of the weekend.
“Our main role is to keep the public safe and the port secure so that anyone attending the Tall Ships over the weekend can have the best possible experience.
“Open water can be really dangerous and we need the public to be aware of exactly what can happen if you enter the water at the Tall Ships over the weekend.
“The temperature of the water can cause the body to go into shock, the current could sweep you out to sea and objects such as rocks could be hidden under the water surface.
“You should never go into the water if you have been drinking alcohol and families should make sure that any young children are supervised and kept a safe distance from the water edge.
“We will be on duty and working closely with RNLI to deal with any incidents but we don’t anticipate any trouble and are looking forward to a really great event.”
Two Park and Ride sites will be in operation north and south of Blyth and there will be no parking for vehicles within the town itself as a number of road closures and road blocks will be in place.
A limited number of disability parking will be available in the town centre but visitors will have to reserve a space in advance. Taxis and existing public transport links will continue to operate throughout the weekend.
For more information about the event, parking and transport to and from the Tall Ships visit www.tallshipsblyth2016.com/
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A weekend of celebrations is taking place to mark a very special anniversary for one of Northumberland’s most famous sons.
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A weekend of celebrations is taking place to mark a very special anniversary for one of Northumberland’s most famous sons.
The bank holiday weekend will see a host of events taking place to mark the 300th birthday of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, who was born at Kirkharle.
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Brown was probably England’s greatest landscape designer and changed the face of 18th century England, designing country estates and mansions, moving hills and making flowing lakes and serpentine rivers, a magical world of green.
Brown himself walked to school from Kirkharle to Cambo every day, a distance of five miles, and the landscape, through which he walked, stimulated his imagination. He began his gardening career under Sir William Loraine at Kirkharle, but his dreams of limitless landscapes in ‘an image of heaven’ had to wait until he moved south some 23 years later, establishing his considerable reputation and making his fortune.
He was baptised at St Wilfrid’s Church in Kirkharle on August 30, 1716.
And it is there, and in Kirkharle itself, where celebrations will begin this weekend to bring to a climax events that have been going on throughout the year, and across the country, to mark the anniversary.
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Throughout the weekend there will be a festival of 18th century flowers at St Wilfrid’s, with entry by donation.
On Friday night there will be an evening concert with television presenter and entertainer, Rothbury-born Alexander Armstrong, another Northumbrian who has carved an illustrious career for himself, who will pay tribute to Brown. This event, however, has already sold out.
On Saturday another well-known North East historian and broadcaster will give an entertaining talk and presentation.
John Grundy will talk about Brown, his Kirkharle life and the extent of his influence on English landscapes. It will be held in the marquee, in the Barn at 7pm. Limited tickets are available – £20 each. To book, email dvdprsgeorge@aol.com or call Kirkharle Coffee House on 01830 540362.
The Duke of Northumberland with the commemorative stamp featuring Alnwick Castle.
On Sunday, at 11am, a service of Holy Communion and thanksgiving for the life and works of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown will take place in St Wilfrid’s Church, conducted by The Rt Revd Christine Hardman Bishop of the Newcastle Diocese.
And on Monday there will be yet more celebrations with a traditional church fete.
Running from 2pm to 5pm it will include displays of traditional crafts, games and pony carriage rides. Time Bandit, Mr Brown himself, will be available to guide visitors round the courtyard. Entry is £5 per car.
Events to continue the celebrations will take place for the rest of the year at Kirkharle.
For more information, events and timings, visit the website at kirkharlecourtyard.co.uk/capability-brown/2016-celebrations/
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Six athletes from Morpeth Harriers were amongst those in action for a second placed North Eastern Counties Select, who took part in a Northern Inter Counties U15 and U17 Track and Field Championship at Hull’s Costello Stadium.
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Six athletes from Morpeth Harriers were amongst those in action for a second placed North Eastern Counties Select, who took part in a Northern Inter Counties U15 and U17 Track and Field Championship at Hull’s Costello Stadium.
The warm and sunny conditions were certainly enjoyed by a hard-working regional squad who performed well as a team, with some exceptional individual efforts.
U17 distance specialist Kieran Hedley was certainly one of the best of those, winning the 1500m in a modest 4m15.30s, a little bit hampered by the stiff wind swirling around the Humberside arena.
Morpeth Harriers had another winner in Matthew Waterfield, who triumphed in the U17 Men’s 400m in 54.02s, which was a couple of seconds adrift of his best.
Liam Marsh of Morpeth Harriers finished second in the U17 Men’s 3000m, posting a time of 10m08.28s.
Throws specialist Andrew Knight finished a close third in the U15 Boys’ Shot Putt with his best effort of 13.45m, he only lost out for victory by a mere 41cm.
Knight also competed in the hammer, where he threw 23.08m for sixth place.
Morpeth’s David Thomas finished fifth in a competitive U17 Men’s Long Jump with a best of 5.64m.
He also finished seventh in the shot putt with 7.56m.
Bobbie Griffiths threw 24.88m for ninth place in the U17 Women’s Hammer.
Amassing a total of 483 points, the North East Counties lost out by 51 points for victory to Yorkshire, with Merseyside 90 points adrift in third place.
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Visitors to Newbiggin sea front this Sunday will be able to enjoy live street performances and purchase goods produced by young people.
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Visitors to Newbiggin sea front this Sunday will be able to enjoy live street performances and purchase goods produced by young people.
Newbiggin Teenage Market will be the second such event to take place in Northumberland this year, organised by Northumberland County Council’s Youth Service.
Those involved have already said that they will be producing and/or selling cakes, sweets, mugs, t-shirts, phone covers and more, as well as running a tombola and fun stalls including hook-a-duck.
Local county councillor and deputy business chair of the county council, Liz Simpson, is markets champion for the county and she is looking forward to this exciting event in her own community.
She said: “The teenage market is a national initiative that gives young people a free platform to showcase their creative talents.
“At Newbiggin on Sunday, we have stalls for groups and individual young people to hone their enterprise skills, raise money for themselves, their clubs or chosen charities and get a taste of what having a market stall is like.
“It is an opportunity for them to trial new business ideas and sell creative products.
“Whilst some teenagers are selling their wares, others may be engaged in a street performance and I can’t wait to see them all.”
The market will take place from 11am to 3pm. There are extra stalls available if any more teenagers would like to join in and trade on the day.
For more details on how to get involved, call Mike Kelcey on 01670 620323 or email michael.kelcey@northumberland.gov.uk or call Neil Brown, markets manager, on 07909 688174 or email neil.brown@northumberland.gov.uk
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There’s quite a bit of black spot, rust and mildew on roses at present, and once they have a foothold, no amount of fungicidal spraying will resolve the problem. The best you can do is contain it.
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There’s quite a bit of black spot, rust and mildew on roses at present, and once they have a foothold, no amount of fungicidal spraying will resolve the problem. The best you can do is contain it.
Prevention is better than cure. If you must spray, start at bud burst in spring and continue regularly.
God bless the song thrush, and toads and frogs.
Gooseberries and grapes can be prone to mildew too. If you fail to prune the former, it becomes congested with stems and air cannot penetrate to the centre of the bush – ideal conditions for the disease. We’ve just picked a good crop ahead of wasps becoming interested. But now is not the best time to thin-out branches. Once the leaves fall, a clear picture of the framework emerges – that’s when to prune.
Never take a healthy grape vine for granted. Keep all the vents open to encourage air flow through your greenhouse and maintain a moderate temperature.
Neither can you afford to drop your guard on the pest front.
Cabbage white butterflies keep inspecting the fine mesh netting that covers our winter greens. They’re looking for a chink in the armour and any part of a leaf touching it will receive a cluster of eggs.
Two rabbits that brazenly graze on the front lawn are also nibbling at the bedding plants. Luckily, they’ve not discovered raised vegetable beds in the back garden yet.
Craftiest of all are the slugs and snails that wander freely, damaging plants under cover of darkness.
Here the control options seem endless. Do we surround plants with a barrier of gritty material or copper to give them a shock? Are pitfall traps filled with beer the answer? Or should we introduce parasitic nematodes to the soil?
Poisonous baits, such as slug pellets, are out for us because we have three species of animal friends on patrol. God bless the song thrush, and toads and frogs.
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We have just witnessed that amazing spectacle that comes around once every four years when athletes from every corner of the world live out their Olympic dreams.
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Olympic stars put ‘Great’ into Britain
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We have just witnessed that amazing spectacle that comes around once every four years when athletes from every corner of the world live out their Olympic dreams.
Four years ago the Games were held in London and the country was gripped by Olympic fever, heightened by the journey of the torch through our cities, towns and villages. Who can forget that rainy day in 2012 when the torch was carried through Morpeth by, among others, the town’s very own Olympian Jim Alder?
There are so many different dreams to be followed, no matter where your skills lie.
The feeling seemed to be that nothing could match London, but how wrong that turned out to be. Team GB has had its most successful Olympics, with 67 medals, 27 gold — more than we achieved at our ‘home’ Games.
The superstars were there — Mo Farah with two golds to add to his double from London, cyclist Jason Kenny joining Sir Chris Hoy as Britain’s greatest Olympian with a total of six medals and his wife-to-be Laura Trott retaining her two London titles. Plus Andy Murray taking the tennis title again, the Brownlee brothers Alistair and Jonathan, boxer Nicola Adams, dressage star Charlotte Dujardin, Bradley Wiggins, and Jade Jones.
But there were other unexpected triumphs — the women’s hockey team, gymnast Max Whitlock, divers Jack Laugher and Chris Mears, and the sailing, rowing, kayak and canoeing squads.
Medal winners also showed that age is no barrier, from 16-year-old gymnast Amy Tinkler securing a bronze to equestrian Nick Skelton winning gold at the age of 58, making him the second oldest GB Olympic champion behind Joshua Millner, 61, in 1908.
Our Olympians exceeded all expectations, ending second in the medal table behind the USA and ahead of China and Russia — a phenomenal achievement for a country the size of Britain.
Every one of our Olympians had praise for the funding that has gone into their sports. A huge amount has come from the National Lottery, which has helped transform Team GB from also-rans into the best in the business. Twenty years ago, Team GB won a single gold medal at Atlanta.
Also, our Olympians all talked about the way they have followed their dreams from the day they first walked into their local club or gym wanting to take up sport, and there is a lesson there to be learned. There are opportunities at local clubs run by people dedicated to their sport.
In the Morpeth area we can look to football, swimming, athletics, golf, rugby, cricket, tennis and badminton clubs, to name a few, that can give young people a start in their chosen sport. For Team GB success came in 16 different sports — more than any other country. That shows there are so many different dreams to be followed, no matter where your skills lie.
Experts say one of the reasons for success is that lottery investment has given our talented sports stars not only the best equipment and training facilities, but the right coaches, trainers and support staff.
It’s fair to ask does Olympic success really matter when we have so many other issues to contend with and where, it could be argued, money could be better spent on the economy, security, homelessness, unemployment and the poverty trap? Surely the answer lies in the affirmative.
The Government produced its report on obesity during the Games, with proposals to reduce sugar in food and drink and encourage youngsters to eat healthily. There has been comment that it does not go far enough. Concerns have also been expressed that more needs to be done to encourage children to be more active.
It would be good to think that our Olympic success can be the catalyst to make that change. We must do all we can to encourage youngsters to be inspired. Funding must also be driven into the grass-roots level. Local clubs need financial support to help them find that talent that may one day shine at the Olympics.
As a country we have been through some tough times lately and our reputation as a world power has perhaps been tarnished by our decision to leave the European Community. But Team GB has shown that the word ‘Great’ rightly deserves its place in front of that second word ‘Britain’.
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The owner of a ladies-only fitness club in Morpeth will be putting her best foot forward with her sister next month as they are taking part in a famous race to support a good cause.
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The owner of a ladies-only fitness club in Morpeth will be putting her best foot forward with her sister next month as they are taking part in a famous race to support a good cause.
Angela Brown has completed the 13.1-miles Great North Run a number of times in the past, but this year is the first time she will be running alongside her sister, Beverley Armstrong.
They will both be running for Tiny Lives, which is based at the RVI hospital in Newcastle.
The charity supports premature and sick newborn babies and their families – the team at the special care baby unit looked after Beverley’s daughter Brooke when she was born ten years ago weighing just 3lb 7oz.
Angela is a mum of twins and she is also the manager of the Healthlands Ladies Fitness gym based in Sanderson Arcade. She said it is an ideal place to get motivated for the challenge ahead.
She added: “It’s a great atmosphere to prepare for the challenge of the Great North Run. Everyone is really supportive, including all the staff and the members at Healthlands.
“We really pride ourselves on having a lovely family atmosphere and have mothers and daughters, and even grandmothers and grand-daughters, who are members and come to the gym together.
“I first did the Great North Run in 1987, but this will be very special as we’re doing it together and for a charity that does such fantastic work at the RVI.”
Centre manager Medi Parry, who is also taking part in this year’s run, wished Angela and Beverley the very best on behalf of the arcade.
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Early results indicate that half of Northumberland’s 16 secondary/high schools achieved GCSE results above the 2015 national average.
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Early results indicate that half of Northumberland’s 16 secondary/high schools achieved GCSE results above the 2015 national average.
The figures show that close to 60 per cent of pupils achieved A* to C passes in five or more GCSEs, including English and maths.
Coun Robert Arckless, Northumberland County Council’s cabinet member for children’s services, said: “This is a great achievement. I would like to congratulate all the pupils on their results and thank teachers, support staff and parents for all their hard work.
“They should all feel very proud – and it further reinforces our view that the targeted investment we are putting in to Northumberland schools will help every pupil make the most of their individual talents to set themselves on the path to further success in education, training and employment.
“It was particularly pleasing that some schools which have fought back from weak Ofsted reports are recording continued improvements in their exam grades, while other higher-achieving institutions have built on their earlier success to register even better results.
“We are well aware the job is not complete and the council will constantly strive to ensure all Northumberland pupils have the best possible education.”
Those studying with Northumberland County Council’s adult education service have also had a successful year with more than 60 per cent of learners successfully gaining a grade C or above in English and maths and in other courses achieving 100 per cent success.
The early indications of improved educational outcomes in Northumberland comes as three new school buildings are set to open in Alnwick, Bedlington and Prudhoe. The council also plans to invest a further £57million in new schools and leisure facilities in Ponteland.
Coun Arckless added: “Northumberland County Council is working hard to make great places even better; investing in schools and our young people’s education and their future is a key priority for us.
“We currently have one of the largest capital investment programmes in schools across the UK – investing over £100million to create the best possible environment for our young people to learn and develop the knowledge and skills needed for the future.”
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Morpeth Harrier Kieran Hedley was disappointed he did not manage to dip under the four minute barrier in the 1500m C Race at the BMC Gold Standards Meeting in Stretford, Manchester.
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Morpeth Harrier Kieran Hedley was disappointed he did not manage to dip under the four minute barrier in the 1500m C Race at the BMC Gold Standards Meeting in Stretford, Manchester.
Nevertheless he could take consolation from the fact that he did manage to edge much closer to his season’s target by clocking a new personal best time of 4m00.60s when finishing ninth, which in itself bettered his previous best by almost two seconds, which he had achieved at the beginning of June in the BMC Regional Meeting at Chester-le-Street.
Also running at Stretford was fellow Morpeth Harrier Scott Beattie, who finished second in the B race in 3m52.66s, which was a second outside his personal best.
Another Morpeth Harrier in action at the venue was Rory Leonard, who was taking part in the 1500m in the Trafford Grand Prix.
Leonard bettered his previous best time by around two seconds when posting 4m21.74s, his previous best had been at the same venue in June.
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Gardeners are helping to bring a splash of colour to the streets ahead of the forthcoming North Sea Tall Ships Regatta.
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Gardeners are helping to bring a splash of colour to the streets ahead of the forthcoming North Sea Tall Ships Regatta.
An extra splash of colour has been brought to a circular design featuring a nautical theme planted on the links near the bandstand at Blyth.
Wild flowers that have been planted ahead of the Tall Ships Regatta in Blyth.
The design features a two-masted ship as its centrepiece celebrating Blyth’s very own Tall Ship, the Williams II, and the imminent arrival of a fleet of Tall Ships to the port.
The bed, which is five metres in diameter, features a red and yellow theme to match the colours of the Northumberland county flag.
The colour theme has been repeated across all floral displays in Blyth.
Northumberland County Council, in partnership with the Port of Blyth and Sail Training International, is hosting the prestigious Regatta with Fergusons of Blyth the principal sponsor.
Blyth Town Council has funded the maritime gardening while the gardeners work for the county council’s Neighbourhood Services team.
The design was sent to Kernock Plants in Cornwall with the plants delivered to site, pre-grown in trays.
It took the gardening team four hours to complete the planting of nearly 20,000 plants to create the bed.
Coun Val Tyler, cabinet member for arts, leisure and culture at the county council, said: “These floral displays are a wonderful way to celebrate the Tall Ships coming to Northumberland.
“The designs are ingenious and the Northumberland-themed wildflower displays are a joy to see, providing a bright and beautiful welcome for our residents and the many visitors coming into the town.”
The team has also planted spectacular wildflower displays along Rotary Way and South Newsham Road.
The wildflowers along Rotary way were funded by Blyth Town Council and include a mixture of cornfield annuals including poppy, corn marigold, corn clower, corn chamomile and corn cockle.
Local ward councillor and chair of events at Blyth Town Council, Kath Nisbet: “The gardening team has done a superb job creating these maritime and wildflower beds.
“The Blyth Tall Ship Williams II design is a great floral tribute to the past exploits of our very own local hero, Captain William Smith, and the future plans to recreate his journey of adventure and discovery of Antarctica.”
Martin Lawlor, chief executive, Port of Blyth, said: “There are just three weeks to the Regatta and Blyth is really starting to look the part for welcoming the Tall Ships fleet to the county with street dressing, floral displays, and posters in shop windows – it’s very exciting!”
The Tall Ships Regatta Blyth 2016 takes place over the weekend of August 26 to 29, and features five zones of free family entertainment.
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A special drama course will be taking place in Morepth next week, and there is still time to join up and take part.
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A special drama course will be taking place in Morepth next week, and there is still time to join up and take part.
Youngsters aged nine to 12 have the chance to audition, rehearse and perform in a play in Play in a Week, which is running at Morpeth Methodist Church from Monday, August 22, with a performance of the finished play on Friday, August 26.
It is being run by Roxana Freeman, a drama associate at Theatre Royal Newcastle, who also runs the acclaimed play writing programme for teens Write Stuff at Live Theatre, Newcastle.
This month Roxana has started Re:Act! Drama Services, bringing more drama activities to the region.
She said: “This is the first time I have run a summer school in the Morpeth area, where I live, and we’re hoping it will boost activities for young people at Morpeth Methodist Church and the local area.”
It’s not too late to join in the fun.
The sessions will run from 9.30am to 3.30pm, Monday to Friday, and will be a mixture of games, acting and rehearsals for the play on the Friday.
The summer course will also help youngsters learn more about acting and drama.
The five-day course costs £110 per person and will take place in the Methodist Church.
Anyone interested in finding out more about the course or booking a place can find React Drama Services on Facebook, email Roxana.React@gmail.com or ring 07909145090.
Re:Act! Drama Services has been set up to run rewarding classes for anyone, anytime anywhere. Anyone interested in finding out more about the specific services run by React! can find out more by visiting http://roxanareact.wixsite.com or contact Roxana on the email or telephone number above.
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KARKAMIS: Turkey yesterday sent more tanks into Syria to bolster a military offensive against jihadists and Kurdish fighters, as a diplomatic push for a new ceasefire in Syria gathered pace. An AFP photographer in the village of Karkamis on the Turkish side of the border saw six more tanks roll over the frontier as mop-up operations continued in a town wrested from the Islamic State group (IS). Sporadic explosions were heard from over the border as Turkish-backed rebels carried out de-mining work in the town of Jarabulus seized from IS on Wednesday.
The state-run Anadolu news agency confirmed that the rebels were working to destroy explosives left behind by IS militants, with 20 different sets destroyed on Friday alone. The deployment was the latest phase in Turkey’s military operation inside Syria-codenamed “Euphrates Shield”-to oust IS from the border region and also counter advances by a Kurdish militia opposed by Ankara.
As Turkey stepped up its biggest operation in Syria since the start of the war, the US and Russia announced progress in talks on agreeing a new ceasefire. Meanwhile, the evacuation of Daraya, a town crushed by a four-year Syrian army siege, continued, with hundreds of fighters and their families arriving in rebel-held territory in the northwest.
‘Important steps’
In Geneva on Friday, US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov said they had cleared key obstacles in ceasefire talks but had yet to reach a final deal. “Today I can say that we achieved clarity on the path forward” for a revamped cessation of hostilities, Kerry said. Lavrov concurred, saying that “very important steps” had been made on a deal to stop the violence. Russia, a staunch ally of Assad’s regime, has been backing government forces with air strikes on rebel-held areas.
The US supports Syria’s main opposition alliance and some rebel factions. There had been hope that Friday’s talks might lead to a breakthrough on the battered northern city of Aleppo, where fighting between government and rebel forces has escalated in recent weeks, leaving hundreds dead. But neither side gave pledges on getting muchneeded aid into the city. And Turkey’s offensive in Syria added yet another layer of complexity to the tangled web of powers jockeying for influence in the war-torn country. Turkey’s leadership has made clear that its offensive is also aimed at holding back the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia, which has led the fight against IS in the area.
Ankara says that the YPG has failed to stick to a promise made by its US allies that the militia would move back east across the Euphrates following the seizure of the town of Manbij from IS earlier this month. Turkey sees the YPG militia and its Democratic Union Party (PYD) political wing, which have links to Kurdish rebels in southeast Turkey, as “terror groups” bent on carving out an autonomous Kurdish region.
Over 50 tanks
Turkey has continued sending in tanks since Wednesday’s lighting operation to help rebels rout IS from Jarabulus. Helped by Turkish forces, the rebels retook the town, which had been in IS hands since 2013, without a fight. Hurriyet daily reported that Turkey had 50 tanks and 380 personnel on the ground in Syria after three days of operations. The Turkish troops are supporting an even larger force of hundreds of Syrian rebels.
On Thursday, Turkey shelled Syrian Kurds south of Jarabulus but there have been no reports of further activity against the group since then. Hurriyet said the Turkish forces had been given an order to “strike immediately” should the YPG be seen to make any move towards the liberated town. Elsewhere, rebel fighters leaving the town of Daraya near Damascus, which had held out against an army siege for four years, began arriving in the rebel-held city of Idlib.
At least five buses carrying fighters and their families arrived yesterday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Daraya was one of the first towns to rise up against President Bashar al-Assad in 2012. From a symbol of revolt it became a symbol of the fierce suffering caused by the war, with the army siege causing acute hunger. The rebels said they were forced to give up the town because of deteriorating humanitarian conditions, accusing Damascus of “starve or surrender” tactics. The around 8,000 civilians left in the town are also being evacuated. —AFP
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AMMAN: The two programs, ‘Maraheb’ (welcome) and ‘Ahlam Al-Zarazir’ (dreams of swallows) produced by Kuwait Radio, have respectively won the gold and silver awards, of the Third Jordan Festival for Arab Media. The gold award of the competition of live broadcasting radio program and the silver award of the radio social series competition were handed to Director of Kuwait Radio Main Saad Al-Findi. The Festival’s Secretariat granted recognition awards to Kuwait TV for its ‘Bayya’et Al-Nekhi’ serial, the Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense for its continued participation in the annual event.
The two awards were received by the TV representative Amer Al-Amer and the media advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Lt-Gen (retired) Abdulaziz Al-Ris. The awards came in recognition of the active efforts of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Information which is keen taking part in the media events on the regional Arab level, said the Ministry’s Assistant Undersecretary for Media Planning and Development Mohammad Al-Ghawwash.
“Our participation in Jordan Festival is in implementation of the instruction of the Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al- Sabah to support the Arab media joint action,” Al-Ghawwash, who doubles as President of the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU), said in statements to KUNA.
He added that the Ministry’s delegation took part in all symposia and seminars held on the sidelines of the festival which is sponsored by the Arab League. The threeday festival provided the Arab broadcasters with an opportunity to share experience in making use of the advances in information technology and media industry. — KUNA
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KUWAIT: Today is the last day for those who want to register for hajj this year, a Kuwaiti official said yesterday. Pilgrims are warned against going to unlicensed campaigns, said Khalaif Al-Athaina, Head of the Kuwait hajj mission and assistant undersecretary for coordination, technical support and foreign relations at the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs.
He also urged pilgrims to make sure that the agencies they go through are approved by the Awqaf Ministry so that they can enter the holy land and perform hajj, because most unlicensed campaigns will have difficulties in entering Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, Athaina urged all pilgrims to go to vaccination centers of the health ministry to take the necessary vacancies to be protected from any infectious diseases.
Road maintenance
Ministry of Public Works said four percent of the maintenance of crossroads on the western part of the Fifth Ring Road is done. The ministry said the total cost of the project is KD 108.8 million and it will contribute to the development of the road network in the country when completed. It said the project serves many residential areas overlooking the western part of Fifth Ring Road, such as Ardiya, Firdous, Sulaibiya, south Doha and Qairawan. The number of lanes will be increased to four in each direction, in addition to service and emergency lanes.
Special needs
Social Affairs and Labor Ministry Undersecretary Matar Al-Mutairi said the state is keen on presenting the best care to special needs nursery children according to the law and rules, and this is one of the factors that made Kuwait to occupy the lead in presenting social care for those with special needs in general. Mutairi said besides the services presented to nursery children, the financial cost of all the children – who number 148 – is KD 5.5 million per year that covers food, education, training, transport, cleanliness, security and others, besides what the state pays in the form of salaries to workers dealing with those children.
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BAGHDAD: Iraqis and Kuwaitis worked very hard together to overcome the bitterness of the past, bringing the relations back to their former glory, said former Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki. Speaking during his meeting with the visiting delegation from the Kuwait Journalists Association (KJA) recently, Al-Maliki said that he worked hard to normalize relations with Kuwait during his tenure as Prime Minister as well as Vice President of Iraq. He stressed that the media in both countries played an integral part in solidifying ties between Kuwait and Iraq, adding that with the normalization of relations, both nations could pursue various fields of cooperation.
Al-Maliki, who is head of the state of law coalition, called on Kuwaitis to invest in Iraq, saying that there were various opportunities for both Iraqis and Kuwaitis to pursue mutual business and commercial ventures. Regarding the situations in Iraq and the Arab world, Al-Maliki noted that the attempts to create sectarian strife in the country and the turmoil sweeping the region were threats to the stability of all Middle Eastern countries. Finding solutions to problems in Iraq and the Middle East is a must to overcome obstacles faced by the region, said the Iraqi official.
On the economic and security situation in Iraqi, Al-Maliki said that both domains needed to be addressed seriously by all sectors of the Iraqi society or else everyone will be doomed. He noted that solutions to Iraq’s problems include steps that would bring composure to the national economy, in addition to strong security campaigns to defeat the so-called Islamic State (IS) in Iraq. Hopefully after the liberation of Mosul from IS, Iraqis will come together for the sake of their country, said Al-Maliki who warned against disunity amongst the people. He said that during his tenure as Prime Minister he tried his best to bring back the country from ruins, launching several projects aimed at the development of Iraq; however, the dire security situation and various factors made it hard for his cabinet to achieve goals that would please all Iraqis.
The Kuwaiti delegation included President of the Kuwait Journalists Association (KJA) Adnan Al-Rashid, Deputy Director General for Editorial Sector and Editor-in-Chief of Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) Saad Al-Ali, and head of local department in Kuwaiti daily Al-Qabas Ibrahim Al-Saidi and other journalists. — KUNA
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KUWAIT: Danah Al-Safat Foodstuff Company convened its annual general assembly meeting yesterday and elected its new board of directors. Chairman of the Board Fahed Abdulrahman Al-Mukhaizim presided over the meeting and thanked shareholders for attending the general assembly meeting which concluded on a positive note. Al-Mukhaizim, who spoke to the Kuwait Times following the general assembly meeting, said all the items on the agenda were approved and the new board received a vote of confidence.
Talking in detail about the company’s performance and its future plans, in the presence of the board which was re-elected yesterday, Al-Mukhaizim said the board had a vision in 2014 and a plan for the next three years, including the restructuring of the operating units of the company. The company had a plan to review its main activities, and attempt to inject more funds into it in order to expand existing activities. Results at the operational profits level remained positive though profits marginally declined. However, the company is standing on solid grounds both at operational and financial levels.
KT: What are your future plans and do you intend to expand to other markets?
Al-Mukhaizim: In fact we have F&B Venture Holding in Lebanon, which received a trademark and began to branch into to neighboring countries. Similarly, another company Egyptian Dairy Foodstuff Company (EDAFCO), which started self-production and expanded its activities significantly.
The industrial line that we are taking is very important and one of the main sources that will contribute to enhance the revenues of companies in addition to the restaurants sector which is being restructured in order give it a new look.
KT: Will the company return to the stock market following the general assembly?
Al-Mukhaizim: There is no doubt that we will, because the main reason for suspending the trading of the company’s shares was over holding the general assembly meeting. We will send the appropriate correspondence to resume stock market activity.
The annual report
Al-Mukhaizim read out the report of the management to the general assembly. The report said:
“Another year has passed with a performance that was driven by determined efforts and was rewarded with outstanding achievements. 2015 was a crucial year in which the company exceeded its strategic objectives by achieving results that go beyond the targeted levels helping it further strengthening its leading position as a pioneering company in the field of foodstuffs. The company also improved its market value in the local and domestic markets supported by the volume of its business and the strength of its brands.
It added, “2015 was a unique year in every measure. It saw the company resolutely face numerous challenges and make continuous efforts to improve performance with the full support from the Board of Directors, and the loyal efforts of its employees, who shared the board’s commitment not only to preserve but also to enhance the company’s position as an economic bastion. It represents a diversified and integrated group of companies that occupies a prominent position in the foodstuffs sector while playing a key role in providing a wide range of foodstuffs including processed and unprocessed foodstuffs through its subsidiaries by using multiple distribution channels of those companies.
The company continued its strong performance and achieved high performance in most of its activities by implementing an ambitious strategy designed to enable the company to expand its horizons further. The strategy also helped the company constructively engage in the economic development of the country by remaining the supplier of the customers’ choice.
Main achievements
Al-Mukhazim said in 2015 the company made a number of achievements despite the continuing negative effects of the financial crisis, political circumstances and oil price decline. Foremost among those achievements was the improvement of the company’s consolidated sales by 16 percent compared to 2014 (as sales benefited from the re-structuring of the sales sectors of the subsidiary companies and the appointment of a number of executives of outstanding talents in those sectors as well as the launching of new products).
Geographic expansion was another key achievement.
During the year, we achieved a higher level of balance and synergy among the various sectors of the company, ensuring that work is done with higher professionalism, and implementing a well-considered restructuring plan designed to ensure the achievement of sizeable surpluses in the service sectors of the subsidiary companies, with unlimited support by the parent company. It is also worth noting that the company’s total assets rose by 13 percent during the year.
First: Financial Performance
Danah Al-Safat Foodstuff Company
The company achieved a profit of KD 102,722 in 2015 compared to KD 458,583 in 2014. It is worth mentioning that the company had to take necessary precautionary provisions amounting to KD 2,712,544 against the background of probable economic conditions. This means that the company’s profits before these provisions amounted to KD 2,815,266, with an increase of KD 514 percent over those achieved in 2014.
Earnings per share amounted to 0.36 fils in 2015 compared to 1.62 fils in 2014. Total revenues amounted to KD 36,045,126 in 2015 compared to KD 31,134,043 in 2014, reflecting an increase of 16 percent. Gross profit for 2015 rose to KD 9,982,555 against KD 7,697,072 for the previous year, representing a 30 percent improvement for the year. General and Administrative expenses for 2015 amounted to KD 3,754,334 compared to KD 3,370,878 in the previous year and shareholders’ equity amounted to KD 35,345,373 at the end of 2015, rising by 2 percent over its level of KD 34,768,776 at the end of the previous year. At the end of 2015, the book value per share amounted to KD 122 fils compared to 120 fils at the end of 2014.
Subsidiary companies
In 2015, our subsidiary companies continued to deal with the difficult economic and political conditions that confronted the local markets, with a stronger determination to overcome the unfavorable effects of those conditions, for our companies enjoyed all the factors conducive to achieve success and the key elements of development.
United Fisheries of Kuwait
Sales for 2015 amounted to KD 6,471,528 compared to KD 4,665,065 for the same period of the previous year with an increase of 39 percent. These sales are the highest achieved by the company during the past 10 years. The company achieved a net profit of KD 401,219 against KD 148,055 in the previous year, rising by 171 percent for the period.
Safat Dhiafa Company
Total sales for 2015 amounted to KD 6,338,536 compared to KD 6,498,956 for the same period of the previous year. The company registered a loss of KD 2,576,352 in 2015 against a loss of KD 28,341 for the same period of the previous year.
F & B Company, Lebanon
Sales for 2015 amounted to KD 21,323,426 compared to KD 18,593,544 for the same period of the previous year, rising by 15 percent for the year. The company achieved a profit of KD 1,396,431 in2015 against a profit of KD 1,055,576 for the same period of the previous year, with an increase of 32 percent for the year.
EDAFCO Company
Sales amounted to KD 2,817,133 in 2015 compared to KD 2,089,180 for the same period of the previous year, with an increase of 35 percent. Profits amounted to KD 226,246 for 2015 compared to a profit of KD 65,217 for the same period of the previous year, rising by 247 percent.
Investments
The global economic crisis, which broke out at a massive scale in mid-2008 had a negative effect on the company’s investment operations which suffered a substantial decline in value and prompted the company to take due and precautionary provisions, thereby impacting the company’s performance.
In general, the company closely monitors the economic situation in order to seize any attractive investment opportunities related to the company’s activities of all kinds that may become available depending on market conditions with due consideration to the lingering effects of the economic crisis.
Cash dividends and bonus shares
The board of directors decided not to distribute cash dividends or bonus shares and to recommend the general assembly to approve this decision.
Board of Directors’ remuneration
The Board of Directors decided not to pay director remunerations and recommended the Board of Directors to approve this decision.
Governance
Keen to comply with the rules and regulations issued by the Capital Markets Authority concerning governance, the company is currently finalizing the procedure for implementing by mid-2016, according to the relevant time schedule issued by the Capital Markets Authority.
Production activity
Strongly believing in the viability of the food industries sector and its role in providing foodstuffs, the company has paid considerable attention to this sector. Within this framework, facilities at the company’s plant at Doha Port has been developed in order to achieve a positive shift in the quality of seafood offered by the company and by introducing new product lines of fresh and frozen and ready-to-cook shrimp.
The plant of Edafco Company in the Arab Republic of Egypt has also been developed and replacement and maintenance operations have been carried out for the plant equipment with a view to increasing production efficiency. In Lebanon the entire ice-cream plant has been replaced and no production equipment have been installed with higher production capacity. Other equipment have been added to the dairy plant for producing all kinds of cheese.
Future outlook
Despite the achievements made by the company, it still has many more to achieve. To do so, it has drawn a framework that regulates all available policies and plans to exploit the company’s resources in an optimal manner and develop its products and services in such way as to promote diversification of its sources of income.
In his concluding remarks, Al-Mukhaizim said, “The Board of Directors has the honor to present its highest appreciation and deepest gratitude to His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, His Highness the Crown Prince, Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and the honorable government. We would also like to thank the shareholders of the company for their support and the employees of the company for their faithful efforts in implementing the company’s plan. We pray to Allah Almighty to protect Kuwait and keep it safe and secure forever. The General assembly then elected Dar Al-Safa, Al-Safa company, Malik Maher Marafie, Abdullah Hamad Al-Terkait and Bader Mohamed Al-Qattan as board members.
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PKK suicide bombing kills 11 officers – Attack comes two days after Turkish offensive in Syria
ISTANBUL: The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) yesterday claimed a suicide truck bombing on a police building in Turkey’s southeast that killed 11 officers and wounded dozens more. The blast came two days after the Turkish army launched an offensive in Syria that the government says is not only aimed against Islamic State (IS) jihadists but also a Syrian Kurdish militia detested by Ankara.
The blast tore the facade off the headquarters of the Turkish riot police in the town of Cizre, a bastion of PKK support just north of the Syrian border. The local governor’s office said 11 officers were killed and 78 people injured, three of them civilians. Four people were said to be in critical condition. The state-run Anadolu news agency said the explosion took place 50 meters from the building, at a control post.
The PKK said it carried out the assault in retaliation for the “continued isolation” of the group’s jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan and the “lack of information” about his welfare. Cizre, a majority Kurdish town, has been badly hit by renewed violence between the PKK and government forces since the collapse of a ceasefire last year. Turkish security forces have been hit by near daily PKK attacks since a two-and-a-half year truce with the state collapsed in July 2015, leaving hundreds of police officers and soldiers dead.
‘Bare-faced lie’
Turkey’s operation in Syria aims to push both IS and the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia that is fighting the jihadists out of the border region. Ankara considers the YPG, which has links to the PKK, as a terror group bent on carving out an autonomous Kurdish region on Turkey’s border. On Friday, the army sent four more tanks over the border, according to an AFP photographer at Karkamis on the Turkish side of the frontier.
Kurdish activists have accused Turkey of being more intent on preventing Syrian Kurds creating a stronghold than fighting IS jihadists. But Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Friday denounced as a “bare-faced lie” suggestions in Western media that the Syria operation was singling out Kurds. “They either know nothing about the world or else their job is to report a bare-faced lie,” he said. Ankara’s hostility to the Syrian Kurdish fighters has put it at odds with its NATO ally, the United States, which supports them in the fight against IS. On Wednesday, Turkish tanks and fighter jets helped pro-Turkish rebels rout IS from the town of Jarabulus, on which the YPG appeared to have designs.
On Thursday, Turkey shelled Kurdish fighters in the area, saying they were failing to observe a deal with the US to stop advancing west into IS-held territory. Anadolu quoted security sources as saying the military would continue to intervene against the Syrian Kurdish fighters until they began to retreat. In a separate incident on the border, three Turkish soldiers were injured by mortar shells fired from Syria that landed in Yayladagi district, Dogan news agency reported. The agency said there had been clashes between local Turkmen and Syrian regime forces in Latakia, from where the shells were fired.
‘Left without a fight’
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin-who until late June had been locked in a bitter feud over the shooting down of a Russian war plane-agreed to step up efforts to ensure aid reached Syria’s conflict-torn northern Aleppo province. The two also emphasized the need to fight “all terror groups” in Syria, Anadolu agency said. Visiting Turkey on Wednesday, US Vice President Joe Biden said Washington had warned YPG not to move west of the Euphrates river after recent advances, or risk losing American support.
Murat Karayilan, one of the top Iraq-based leaders of the PKK, accused Turkey of doing a deal with IS to vacate Jarabulus. “ISIS has never abandoned a town in one day without putting up a fight,” he told the pro-PKK Firat news agency, using another acronym for IS. The PKK has kept up its assaults following the unsuccessful July 15 coup by rogue elements in the military aimed at unseating Erdogan. The government for its part has vowed to press on with the campaign to eradicate the PKK from eastern Turkey.
Over the past year, the military has conducted operations and imposed punishing curfews in towns and cities in the southeast that have claimed civilian lives, including in Cizre. Over 40,000 people have been killed since the PKK first took up arms in 1984 with the aim of carving out an independent state for Turkey’s Kurdish minority. It is proscribed as a terrorist group by Turkey, the European Union and the United States. – AFP
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Be merciful, don’t maltreat animals
Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) said in a hadith: ‘Be merciful to those on the earth and the One in the heavens will have mercy upon you.’ In the Bible, Matthew 5:7 says “Blessed are the merciful for they shall receive mercy.” Every Heavenly book speaks about mercy and compassion – teaching us to be kind to one another – and to respect every soul. The holy books demand us to help at all times and whenever we can.
I am not here to preach about mercy and compassion because I believe either you were raised and taught to be merciful and compassionate by your parents and the school or God has already planted the seed of mercy in your heart. There are people who are born to be kindhearted while some simply don’t know the meaning of compassion at all.
But compassion and mercy, unfortunately, does not always extend to those who need it most. Let me give you an example. Three weeks ago, on the 8th floor of a building a puppy was left on the balcony, in the searing heat, for several days in a row. The four month old animal barked for hours, desperate in the noon day heat for some water and shade.
The missing owner
As the day passed, other people in the apartment building and neighboring apartment buildings assumed that the owner would come home to at least feed and give the dog water to drink. Surprisingly, that didn’t happen. The dog was still outside the balcony as the temperature soared to above 50 degrees Celsius.
Someone called the ‘haris’ to ask about the dog’s owner. Unfortunately the owner could not be found and so the poor pup was left to suffer. Several people tried to help the animal by pouring water from an adjacent balcony.
Three days passed and still there was no sign of the owner. The poor dog’s condition was getting worse. A call was made to 211, the fire station and the police station asking for help. The authorities said they couldn’t do anything because they cannot break into a private apartment without the owner’s permission or a warrant. No one could help. In fact, even a local nonprofit animal shelter and the Public Authority of Agricultural and Fish Resources Affairs were unable to do anything.
After three long days and nights of the animal being left in an unshaded balcony, the owner finally returned home and allowed the dog back inside the flat. Though neighbors offered to take the dog, to care and provide for it, the owner refused.
Mistreating animals
Unfortunately, mistreating animals is a common thing in Kuwait; it is either by pet owners who abandon them and embark on summer vacation or by children who weren’t raised to respect animals. Sometimes, animals are brutally abuse by people who simply don’t have any sense of responsibility.
And according to a recent article by Fajer Ahmad, ‘Kuwait constitution does not mention animal rights. The Kuwaiti penal (criminal law) does not specify that the abuse of animals is a crime. However, the only law that discusses the killing of an animal is Article 253 of the Criminal Law which states that – ‘A person who kills an animal owned by another by giving it a poisonous or harmful substance; injures it; makes it useless or decreases its benefits deliberately and unjustifiable shall be punished up to two years of imprisonment and/or shall pay up to 2000 rupees.’
There have been repeated attacks recently against animals in Kuwait including the random shooting of dogs, the slaughter of an ancient sea turtle and numerous other incidents. I know that the first thing that will cross our mind is – how do I expect people to have mercy upon animals when people don’t even have mercy on each other? No matter how bad things appeared to be, we should always try to be merciful to others – and to animals. It is our duty and our responsibility.
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At the end of August
So here we are. We’ve finally reached summer’s finish line. By next week, we can all breathe a sigh of relief as we look to our calendars and turn the page to September. The kids are prepped and ready for school and soon (hopefully) the weather will start cooling off enough that people can comfortably enjoy mornings or evenings at the park or at an outdoor café. Change isn’t always as quick or as easy as we want and along with the great things about fall and the end of the summer holidays in Kuwait, comes a plethora of the not-so-great.
During my school years, the last week of August was an entire week of dread. After three months of absolute freedom from school, that dreaded building designed to crumple your happiness loomed ever closer on the horizon. After starting work however, that fear has been replaced by grueling inconvenience. Summer means empty streets. I’ve been going to and from work very smoothly as traffic is greatly reduced because almost a quarter of the country is off on vacation.
But this will all change, as school traffic kicks back in and parents return to work. We will all be forced to wade through some of the thickest traffic snarls on a daily basis. At least we may catch a few more weeks break before the worst of it starts as public schools won’t open until after the Eid holiday in September.
Apart from the usual rush of morning and afternoon traffic that September brings – at least we’ll have better weather to look forward to, right? Sadly, that’s not the case, and in truth that was never the case. In most countries, east or west, the worst of summer lasts for two to three months, while in Kuwait it usually lasts for five. Many people I’ve come across have the notion that once August ends, the weather will slowly start to cool down. Meteorological data sadly proves otherwise. Historical weather data show that Kuwait has an average high of 46 degrees Celsius throughout August, while September has a 43 degree Celsius average. For comparison, New Delhi has an average temperature of 30 degrees in September.
Spending an entire summer in Kuwait this year was a real eye-opener for me. Even though I was here during the same period in 2015 as well, this year was definitely a much tougher slog because I couldn’t use the same cab service I did last summer. I decided to bear the heat, much like Lawrence going back into ‘God’s Hammer’ to rescue Qasim from his impending demise in ‘Lawrence of Arabia’. It was a daily struggle that several others and I had to overcome to reach our air-conditioned destinations. Even though the worst of the heat is behind us and September brings little respite, I can take comfort in the fact that I was able to make it through with my sanity intact.
From the worst summer movie season in recent memory to the adventurous highs of ‘Pokemon Go’ to the successful Rio Olympics, we can take away several talking points from the summer of 2016. It’s been relatively quiet in and around Kuwait, but starting the next season with a long Eid holiday break is certainly a good way to begin. Here’s hoping every one of us can make the most of it!
By Aakash Bakaya
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Hope for survivors fades as Italy quake toll climbs - More than 900 aftershocks have rattled region
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Hope for survivors fades as Italy quake toll climbs – More than 900 aftershocks have rattled region
AMATRICE: An increasingly forlorn search for victims of the earthquake that brought carnage to central Italy entered a third day yesterday as a day of mourning was declared for victims of a disaster that has claimed at least 267 lives. Flags will fly at half-mast across the country today to coincide with the first funerals. Releasing the new confirmed death toll, Immacolata Postiglione, head of the Civil Protection agency’s emergency unit, indicated there had been no survivors found overnight in any of the remote mountain villages devastated by Wednesday’s powerful pre-dawn quake.
At least 367 people have been hospitalized with injuries but no one has been pulled alive from the piles of collapsed masonry since Wednesday evening. “There is no one under the rubble here but in Amatrice there is still hope that survivors could be found today,” survivor Fabrizio Micozzi told AFP in the hamlet of San Lorenzo Flaviano. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has declared a state of emergency for the regions affected by Wednesday’s quake, which occurred in an area that straddles Umbria, Lazio and Marche. Renzi also released an initial tranche of 50 million euros ($56 million) in emergency aid.
The first funerals will be held in the city of Ascoli-Piceno for 40 of the victims who died in the villages of Arquata del Tronto and Pescara del Tronto in the mountains of the Marche region. President Sergio Mattarella will attend. A total of 46 people died in the two villages. The youngest was born in 2012, the oldest in 1924, according to a list published by the local prefecture. Some 2,100 people who spent the night in hastily-erected tented villages were shaken by a 4.8 magnitude aftershock just after 6:00 am (0400 GMT). The tremor underlined the perilous nature of a rescue effort involving more than 4,000 emergency service staff and volunteers. More than 900 aftershocks have rattled the region since Wednesday’s 6.0-6.2 magnitude first one triggered the collapse of hundreds of ill-prepared old buildings across dozens of tiny communities playing host to far more people than usual because of the summer holidays.
Wearing only a slipper
Many of the survivors camping out in the tents were carrying plastic bags containing the handful of possessions-clothes, ID documents, phones and wallets-they had been able to grab before fleeing their homes in terror. Over a dinner provided by an emergency cell of an Italian chefs’ organisation on Thursday evening, one survivor told how close she had come to being trapped in a house in the tiny hamlet of Illica.
“I managed to get out alive because I found a hole in the wall and managed to make it bigger and I made it out onto a roof and walked across until I got to a terrace and managed to get down from there,” said Elisa. “We shared clothes, there were people going around with one slipper on, those who were basically naked until 11:00 am. “When dawn came it was devastating because then we really understood what the damage was, and that there were people who couldn’t be found, who were missing, who were dead.”
Quake experts have estimated that the cost of the short-term rescue effort and mid to longer-term reconstruction could exceed one billion euros. There are also fears of a negative impact of an already stagnating Italian economy. Past experience indicates that quakes always have a negative impact on tourism for the whole country in which they occur. Tourism is particularly important to Italy, contributing around four percent of GDP.
Foreigners among dead
At least eight foreigners were among the dead, according to media reports and updates from foreign ministries. Rescue workers were notably still trying to clear the wreckage of the Hotel Roma in Amatrice, where 32 people were staying on the night of the quake. British media, citing an official in Amatrice, said three Britons had died, including a 14-year-old boy.
Romania reported two of its nationals, who were resident in Italy, had died. Spain, Canada and El Salvador all said that one of their citizens had perished. Renzi’s government and local authorities are now facing questions as to why there had been so many deaths in a sparsely-populated area so soon after a 2009 earthquake in the nearby city of L’Aquila left 300 people dead. That disaster, just 50 kilometers south, underscored the region’s vulnerability to seismic events-but preparations for a fresh quake have been exposed as inadequate. “Italy should have a plan that is not just limited to the management of emergency situations,” Renzi said.
He said that proofing centuries-old buildings against the risk of collapse in the event of a quake would be difficult but that more could be done. Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said Thursday that 293 historical buildings were damaged or destroyed by the quake, although the most important heritage sites in the region were unscathed. – AFP
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Kuwait detains IS Cyber Army member - Govt staffer Nayef arrested after long surveillance
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Kuwait detains IS Cyber Army member – Govt staffer Nayef arrested after long surveillance
DUBAI: Kuwaiti authorities have detained a government employee suspected of belonging to the Islamic State-linked “Cyber Caliphate Army”, and hacking official websites of foreign countries to spread militant ideology, local media reported yesterday.
The Arabic-language Al-Watan and Al-Qabas reported that the 26-year-old man identified as Othman Zebn Nayef was arrested after months of surveillance. Al-Qabas quoted the interior ministry’s public information department as saying in a statement that Nayef confessed to being “a main member of the so-called Caliphate Cyber Army”, believed to be the electronic arm of Islamic State.
An English-language daily, which carried a similar report, did not identify the department where he had worked, but said he was caught using his office computer to “hack official social media sites of some ‘friendly and sister’ countries to spread the extremist thoughts of the so-called Islamic State”.
The statement said Nayef’s arrest had helped capture two suspects in Iraq and one in Jordan on Thursday, but provided no further details. Kuwait has waged a crackdown on Islamist militants since a suicide bomber killed 27 people in an attack on a mosque in Kuwait city in June 2015. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.
In a separate report, Al-Qabas said that around 150 Kuwaiti nationals and residents who hold no citizenship, known as Bedoon, were in Syria fighting within armed groups trying to topple President Bashar Al-Assad, and that up to 11 have died in the fighting. The newspaper quoted unnamed sources as saying that some of those fighters have been trying to find ways to return home as they face “extortion” and robbery from fellow militants. Kuwaiti authorities announced last month having dismantled three IS cells plotting attacks, including a suicide bombing against a Shiite mosque and hitting an interior ministry target. The Kuwaiti government, an ally of the United States, has stepped up its monitoring of individuals and charities suspected of collecting donations for militants linked to Al-Qaeda in Syria and in Iraq.-Reuters
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ILIGAN: Muslim extremists carrying Islamic State group insignia have staged a daring jailbreak in the southern Philippines, freeing 28 detainees in the latest in a series of mass escapes, officials said yesterday. About 50 heavily armed members of the Maute group raided the local jail in the southern city of Marawi on Saturday, freeing eight comrades who had been arrested barely a week ago, police said. Twenty other detainees, held for other offences, also escaped in the raid, provincial police chief Senior Superintendent Agustine Tello said.
The freed members of the Maute group were arrested on August 22 after soldiers manning an army checkpoint found improvised bombs and pistols in the van they were driving. The Maute group is one of several Muslim gangs in the southern region of Mindanao, the ancestral homeland of the Muslim minority in the largely Catholic Philippines. The group has carried out kidnappings and bombings and is believed to have led an attack on an army outpost in the Mindanao town of Butig in February. The fighting there lasted a week, leaving numerous fatalities and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes as helicopter gunships fought off the attackers.
The gunmen attacking the jail Saturday were seen carrying black flags of the Islamic State group, and bandanas bearing the jihadists’ insignia were later found in their base, the military said. Authorities said they were investigating why the jail’s guards did not resist the raid or why security had not been increased after high-risk suspects were brought in. The jailbreak is just the latest mass escape from poorly secured Philippine jails, with the incidents often involving Muslim extremists. In 2009, more than 100 armed men raided a jail in the strife-torn southern island of Basilan, freeing 31 prisoners, including several Muslim guerrillas. – AFP
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Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish militia in Syria - Regime barrel bombs kill 15 civilians in Aleppo
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Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish militia in Syria – Regime barrel bombs kill 15 civilians in Aleppo
KARKAMIS, Turkey: Rebels supported by Turkey fought Kurdish-backed forces in north Syria yesterday, as Ankara ratcheted up its cross-border offensive by saying it had launched air strikes on Kurdish forces and Islamic State. Turkey’s government, which is fighting a Kurdish insurgency at home, has said the Syrian campaign launched this week is as much about targeting Islamic State as it is about preventing Kurdish forces filling the vacuum left when Islamists withdraw.
Turkish security sources said two F-16 jets bombed a site controlled by the Kurdish YPG militia, which is part of the broader US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) coalition. The sources also said the jets hit six Islamic State targets. Ankara’s opponents said Turkish forces had targeted YPG-allied forces but that no Kurdish forces were involved.
On the ground, Turkish-backed Syrian rebels fought forces aligned to the SDF near the frontier town of Jarablus. Forces opposed to Ankara said Turkish tanks were deployed, a charge denied by Turkey’s rebel allies. Yesterday’s use of warplanes against what Turkey said was a Kurdish YPG militia target highlights its determination to prevent any Kurdish territorial expansion in north Syria.
Any action against Kurdish forces in Syria puts Turkey at odds with its NATO ally the United States, which backs the SDF and YPG, seeing them as the most reliable and effective ally in the fight against Islamic State in Syria. It adds complexity to the Syrian conflict that erupted five years ago with an uprising against Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and has since drawn in regional states and world powers.
The Jarablus Military Council, part of the SDF, had said earlier yesterday that Turkish planes hit the village of Al-Amarna south of Jarablus, causing civilian casualties. It called the action “a dangerous escalation”. The Kurdish-led administration that controls parts of northern Syria said Turkish tanks advanced on Al-Amarna and clashed with forces of the Jarablus Military Council. But the Kurdish administration said no Kurdish forces were involved.
However, the leader of one Turkey-backed rebel group gave a rival account. He told Reuters the rebels battled the Kurdish YPG around al-Amarna and denied any Turkish tanks took part. Turkish security forces simply said Turkish-backed forces had extended their control to five villages beyond Jarablus. A video released by Turkey’s military showed the Turkish Red Crescent distributing food and aid to people in Jarablus, with the help of Turkish troops. It also showed what appeared to be Turkish-backed rebels flicking v-for-victory signs in the town.
The newly formed Jarablus Military Council has said it was made up of people from the area with the aim of capturing the town and the surrounding region from Islamic State militants. However, the Turkish-backed rebels seized Jarablus first.
Meanwhile, at least 15 civilians were killed in a barrel bomb attack on a rebel-held district of Aleppo yesterday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. The Britain-based group said regime aircraft had dropped two explosive-packed barrel bombs several minutes apart on the Maadi district of eastern Aleppo. The strikes hit “near a tent where people were receiving condolences for those killed this week in the neighboring district of Bab al-Nayrab,” Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said.
“There was a first barrel bomb and when people gathered and the ambulances arrived, a second barrel struck and there were more deaths,” an AFP reporter in the rebel-held part of the city said. “One ambulance was completely destroyed,” he added, citing the local civil defense unit. The Observatory said dozens more were injured in the two strikes and the death toll was expected to rise.
Yesterday’s deadly strikes come after 15 people, among them 11 children, were killed in a barrel bomb attack on Bab al-Nayrab on Thursday. The local Shabha Press news agency said 23 people were killed in yesterday’s attack, and published photos showing several of the dead, including a man who appeared to have been riding a motorbike at the time of the strike. Most of his blood-soaked body lay on one side of the overturned bike, but his severed leg lay on the other side. Syria’s regime has been accused of regularly using barrel bombs – crude, explosive devices – on rebel-held areas that are home to civilians. – Agencies
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Nevada becomes one of Trump’s big hopes for swing state win
LAS VEGAS: Russ Wheeler bears the financial scars of Nevada’s lost decade, and he hopes Donald Trump can heal them. He worked for a Las Vegas roofing company when the real estate bust crushed the state’s economy. He took two pay cuts before getting laid off. He had to commute into the California desert to find work after that. Wheeler considers himself one of the lucky ones. He was able to build up enough savings to retire, but even now his wife had her teaching hours reduced at a community college, dramatically reducing their household’s income. “It’ll be better with Trump because he’ll bring the jobs back,” Wheeler, 66, said as he stopped by a Republican Party office to scoop up some “Make America Great Again” yard signs and bumper stickers.
“Everybody I know is a Trump supporter. He resonates well in Nevada.” Nevada is the most diverse battleground state. On paper, it should be secure for Democrats. But there are enough people like Wheeler, still rattled by the recession and frustrated about other things, to make it one of Trump’s best swing states. Democrats and Republicans agree that the state’s competitiveness is not just a quirk of public polling, which has a spotty track record in Nevada, but is reflected in private surveys, the tightness of Nevada’s races for the US Senate and House, and the observations of seasoned political operatives. “Nevada’s a picture of where the country’s at,” said Yvanna Cancela, political director of the Culinary Union, which represents nearly 60,000, mostly immigrant workers in casinos and hotels on the Strip. “It’s increasingly diverse but the ideas of nationalism, open borders are very much at play here.”
Recovering economy
The economy has recovered since the recession. The unemployment rate is down to 6.5 percent from 13.7 percent in 2010. While home prices have doubled since 2012, they are well below their 2007 peak, and many Las Vegas residents live in subdivisions dotted with still-unoccupied houses. Nevada also has one of the lowest rates of college education in the country, with only 23 percent of its population having graduated college, giving Trump a reservoir of non-college graduates that traditionally form his base.
And the state’s antiestablishment streak and rebellious culture may prove a good fit for the brash New York developer and reality show star. “In Nevada, we have this mindset of it’s us versus the world,” said Charles Munoz, Trump’s state director. “It’s the perfect storm of policy and messaging.”
The stakes in Nevada go beyond the state’s six electoral votes in the presidential election. The race for retiring Democratic Sen. Harry Reid’s seat pits his hand-picked successor, former state Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, against US Rep Joe Heck. Two of the state’s four US. House seats are also in play. The state has become a presidential bellwether, voting for the winning candidate in every election since 1980. But its partisan divides have hardened as an influx of immigrants has helped fuel Las Vegas’ boom and pull political power from the more rural and conservative northern part of the state. “When I first moved here in 1974, you could barely tell the Republicans and the Democrats apart,” said Donna West, 59, who was working a phone bank for Clinton one recent night. “Now there are huge differences.”
Plenty of advantages
Those differences provide Clinton with plenty of advantages in the state. Democrats have a formidable Nevada ground game, with 70,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans to date. It’s a gap similar to that in 2012, when President Barack Obama won the state by 6 percentage points. Clinton has targeted the state for more than a year, announcing her immigration policy there in 2015 to appeal to Nevada’s growing numbers of Latinos and Asian-Americans.
The state is 51 percent white, though whites comprised twothirds of the 2012 electorate, according to census data. “We know that we have the votes, we just have to turn them out,” said Clinton state director Jorge Neri, who has a view of Trump’s Las Vegas hotel from his office in the Clinton campaign’s headquarters. That hotel, rising just off the Strip and surrounded by a sea of stucco, Asian markets and adult video stores, has been engaged in a battle with the Culinary Union, which organized more than 500 of its workers.
The hotel refused to recognize the union until the National Labor Relations Board forced it to do so in April. Now the union complains the hotel won’t negotiate a contract and has sent housekeepers and bartenders there to picket Trump rallies nationwide. Democrats think the union battle can convince Nevadans that Trump’s populism is phony and he actually hurts workers. “For some people in the country it may seem like a distant thing, but this is in our backyard,” Neri said. The Trump campaign sees the hotel as a net positive. “Trump has invested in this state while Hillary Clinton hasn’t,” Munoz said. On Friday, Trump met at the hotel with about two dozen Latino supporters, Republican leaders and campaign staffers, and asserted: “People don’t know how well we’re doing with the Hispanics, the Latinos. We’re doing really well.” — AP
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W Indies beat India by one run in record run blitz
FORT LAUDERDALE: West Indies defeated India by one run in a record run-laden Twenty20 clash yesterday after piling up the third highest ever total in the game’s shortest format. Set 246 to win, India needed two runs off the last ball for a famous victory in the Florida sunshine. But skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni could only scoop a Dwayne Bravo delivery into the hands of Marlon Samuels at short third man to leave India agonisingly on 244-4. Lokesh Rahul was unbeaten for India on 110 in just his fourth T20 match, hitting 12 fours and five sixes.
West Indies’ total of 245-6 was just short of Australia’s 248 against England in Southampton in 2013 while Sri Lanka’s 260 against Kenya at Johannesburg in 2007 remains the highest ever international T20 total. Evin Lewis smashed an impressive 100 and Johnson Charles hit 79 as the West Indies laid the foundations to mark Carlos Brathwaite’s first game as skipper with a victory. The second match of two back-toback T20s at the rarely-visited Central Broward Regional Park venue takes place today. — AFP
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No Arab Spring in Zimbabwe: Mugabe warns protesters - Police firing teargas and beating up protesters
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No Arab Spring in Zimbabwe: Mugabe warns protesters – Police firing teargas and beating up protesters
HARARE: Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Friday warned that the Arab Spring style of protests would fall flat in Zimbabwe after police fired teargas and beat up protesters staging the latest of a string of highly charged demonstrations. Dozens of police blocked off the site of the opposition rally for electoral reforms by 2018, when 92-year-old Mugabe who has ruled the southern African country for decades will seek re-election. The protesters responded to the clampdown by throwing stones at the police while some set tyres ablaze and others pulled down the sign for a street named after Mugabe.
“They are burning types in the streets in order to get into power. They are thinking that what happened in the Arab Spring is going to happen in this country, but we tell them that is not going to happen here,” said Mugabe in remarks broadcast by state television. “What politics is that when you burn tyres? We want peace in the country,” said Mugabe accusing foreign powers of having a hand in the unrest. AFP correspondents saw armed police firing tear gas and water cannon at protesters gathered on the fringes of the central business district who were waiting for the march to start.
Some people caught up in the melee, including children going to a nearby agricultural show, ran for shelter in the magistrate’s court while riot police pursued the protesters and threatened journalists covering the rally. The usually-bustling pavements were clear of street hawkers and some shops were shut, as rocks, sticks and burning tyres were strewn across the streets. Opposition protesters also clashed with supporters of the ruling ZANU-PF party who had refused to clear their street stalls. ZANU-PF youths hurled stones at the opposition activists but were overpowered and their stalls set on fire.
‘Very deep anger’
The march was organised by 18 opposition parties including the Movement for Democratic Change led by Morgan Tsvangirai and the Zimbabwe People First formed this year by former vice president Joice Mujuru. Opposition leaders condemned the brutal repression of the protest and vowed to increase pressure on Mugabe’s regime. “If that was meant to cow us from demonstrating, I want to say we are going to do the same next week Friday,” former Mugabe ally and ex-cabinet minister Didymus Mutasa told reporters.
Protests “will continue until the day we vote”, said Mutasa, a former top member of ZANU-PF who is now a senior member of Mujuru’s party. “We have had enough of ZANU-PF misrule.” Tsvangirai said the public would not be easily calmed. “The people’s anger is very deep. The people’s desperation is very deep,” he said. “Today’s brutal suppression of the people will not stop them from exercising their rights.”
Government losing control
Tsvangirai said the regime was in its “sunset hour”, warning that efforts to suppress the protests would backfire. “Citizens are like a spring: the more they are suppressed, the greater the rebound,” he said. Charles Laurie, an analyst with Verisk Maplecroft in London, agreed that the government was on the verge of losing control. “The government is nearing a tipping point in its ability to control a population long used to violence and hardship, and who now have little to lose in putting themselves at risk in forcing political concessions,” he told AFP.
Police broke up the protest despite a court ordering them not to interfere or disrupt the march. Authorities said they had arrested 67 people, and lawyers said one of them was a journalist. Several foreign diplomatic missions based in Harare called on the authorities to ensure that basic human rights and freedoms are respected during policing.
‘Violence unacceptable’
The US embassy expressed “deep concern over reports of violence during some of the protests” and called on government to “exhibit restraint” and respect human rights. And the Canadian embassy also said it was “increasingly concerned with reports of violence and human rights violations in response to public protest” while the Australian mission said the use of violence was “not acceptable under any circumstance”.
Friday’s march was to demand free and fair elections. The last elections in 2013 were won by Mugabe in a vote the opposition said was rigged. Zimbabwe has seen a mounting tide of violent protests in recent weeks, with demonstrators demanding the resignation of Mugabe, who has been in power since 1980. Under his rule, there has been an economic collapse that has caused food and cash shortages, with the country battling to pay public servants. – AFP
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KUWAIT: Kuwait yesterday dissolved the country’s Olympic committee and football association, citing financial irregularities.
Hamoud Fulaiteh, Deputy Director General of the Kuwaiti Public Authority for Youth and Sport, said the decision was made in a meeting yesterday and two interim administrations had been appointed, state news agency KUNA reported. Fulaiteh said the two new commissions would be empowered to deal with all the alleged illegal activities committed by the dismissed boards.
They had refused to co-operate in addressing the irregularities, according to KUNA. The International Olympic Committee suspended Kuwait in October 2015, accusing the government of interference in its national Olympic Committee, prompting a $1 billion lawsuit for damages in Swiss courts by the Gulf Arab state in June. The decision forced Kuwaiti athletes in this month’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro to compete under the Olympic flag. — Reuters
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KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality organized inspection tours at slaughterhouses in all governorates to make sure they are completely ready and guarantee the smooth flow of work.
The inspection included examining the equipment and preparations at the main and temporary slaughterhouses under the supervision of acting director Abdallah Al-Shimmari.
Jahra municipality slaughterhouse official Mughaimesh Al-Enezi said the abattoir is ready with 115 butchers, 40 loading workers, 30 cleaners and 25 municipality employees.
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BAGHDAD: Kuwait is always on the forefront of supporting issues related to the welfare of Iraq and the Arab world, said former Iraqi Parliament Speaker and former Vice President Osama Al-Nujaifi. Speaking during a meeting with a delegation from Kuwait Journalists Association (KJA) recently, Nujaifi, who was also former Minister of Industry and Minerals, lauded the unconditional support by His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to Iraq, stressing that the government and people of Iraq were forever grateful for the assistance and generous help provided by the Kuwaiti leadership and people.
On the political and security developments in Iraq, Nujaifi said that since 2003, the country had been in a state of pandemonium especially within the legislative and executive domains with several hastily steps being taken. The instability in the political side of things led to the increase of security threats which resulted in the formation of several terrorist and radical groups such the so-called Islamic State (IS), Al-Qaeda, and others, said the Iraqi official.
The upcoming battle to liberate Mosul completely from IS elements required a military unit deprived of loyalty to any other group expect the Iraqi people as a whole, said Nujaifi. He said that some people were tricked by IS propaganda which claimed that the Iraqi government and armed force were sectarian, adding that the situation now has reversed with Iraqis fully backing up the army’s fight against the terror organization.
As for other groups partaking in the fight against IS, the Iraqi official said that some had committed violations during the quagmire, but several groups such as Peshmerga Kurdish force and similar units have proved loyalty to Iraq via halting and defeating IS.
Tour
Meanwhile, the Kuwaiti delegation visited the headquarters of the official Al-Iraqiya TV where it became acquainted with its nature of work. The delegation was also briefed about the channel’s various broadcasting mechanisms amidst the current circumstances encountering the country. The delegation discussed with Al-Iraqiya administration ways to strengthen bonds of all types of media cooperation to serve the interests of the two brotherly countries.
Deputy head of the Arab Journalists Union and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of daily Al-Anbaa newspaper Adnan Al-Rashed said in a statement that the visit of the Kuwaiti delegation to Baghdad aims to become acquainted with the latest developments of exceptional circumstances in Iraq and show the Kuwaiti society and media the real picture to what’s really happening in Iraq.
Rashed added that “what we have seen with our own eyes was different from what we saw and heard in the media as people in Baghdad live their lives normally and go out to markets, restaurants, cafes while enjoying life”, indicating that the Iraqis were committed to advance and reconstruct their country and are eager to build friendly ties with the rest of the peoples of the region despite political bickering prevailing in Iraq.
He praised the role exerted by the Iraqi Union of Journalists led by the head of the Arab Journalists Union and Dean of the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate Moayyad Allami as well as members of the Bar Council and advisory body for their extensive efforts rendered to the Kuwaiti delegation. He also thanked all official Iraqi bodies which made the delegation’s visit a success. The delegation also included Deputy Director General for Editorial Sector and Editor-in-Chief of Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) Saad Al-Ali, head of local department at the Kuwaiti daily Al-Qabas Ibrahim Al-Saeedi and other journalists. – KUNA
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KUWAIT: An Asian driver was killed when the car he was driving flipped over several times on Sixth Ring Road near the shooting range. Jahra occupational fire center rushed to the scene and found the driver dead, and handed his body to forensic authorities. A case was filed to investigate the causes of the accident.
Meanwhile, a vehicle flipped over on King Fahd Road. Qurain fire center dealt with the accident and the injured driver was rescued and handed to paramedics. A case was filed for investigations.
Separately, two vehicles collided between Jleeb Al-Shuyiukh and Abdullah Al-Mubarak, so Jleeb fire center responded and found a man trapped in a vehicle. Parts of the car were cut and he was freed. He was injured in the shoulder. In another incident, Kuwait Fire Service Directorate’s (KFSD) public relations and information department said a truck flipped over near Naseem roundabout. Jahra occupational fire center responded, with backup from Jahra fire center, and the truck was pulled aside.
Fires
Fire broke out in a cement company in Mina Abdullah. Umm Al-Haiman fire center, backed by Mina Abdullah fire center, responded and found out the fire was in the tire dump. The fire was contained and kept from spreading, then sand was heaped on the fire to put it out. No injuries were reported. Meanwhile, fire broke in trees in Sabah Al-Nasser, which was fought by Jleeb Al-Shuyiukh center. The fire was limited, contained and put out in 10 minutes.
Inappropriate decal
The Ministry of Interior’s relations and security information department said police arrested a man who placed an inappropriate decal on his car. It said the sticker was seen on social media, then concerned authorities identified and located him, and he was arrested and sent to concerned authorities.
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RABAT: Beachside trysts, a three-ton drug bust and a dodgy attempted land deal: the scandals facing Morocco’s ruling Islamist party are piling up ahead of crucial parliamentary elections, leading some supporters to cry foul. The Justice and Development Party (PJD), which has led a coalition governing the North African kingdom since late 2011, finds itself in a fight for re-election in October’s vote as opponents take advantage of the rumors dogging the group.
Last week two vice presidents of the PJD’s religious wing were suspended after the couple, both in their 60s, were found in a “sexual position” on a beach south of Rabat and arrested, local media reported. It was, according to the Le360 news site considered close to circles in Morocco’s royal court, “the cherry on the cake” of scandals involving the Islamists. While the party itself is keeping a low profile, its backers accuse opponents in parliament and the media of conjuring a slur campaign to damage PJD credibility.
“It is an old practice to defame and discredit the other (party) in the fight for power,” historian Maati Monbij told AFP. “Some people at the heart of the state worry about the PJD coming first in elections.” Following years in opposition, the party found itself the head of a coalition in 2011 tasked with guiding Morocco through a turbulent period that saw other North African states convulsed by the Arab Spring uprisings. That vote followed concessions from King Mohammed VI, the scion of a monarchy that has ruled the country for 350 years. A new constitution curbed some, but not all, of the king’s near-absolute powers as autocratic regimes fell in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. Now, as a new election looms, the mounting controversy around the PJD provides a fillip for its rivals, most notably the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM).
String of accusations
The list of accusations against the PJD is long and varied. Last year, a woman filed a sexual harassment case against a PJD candidate near Marrakesh. A party member was arrested last month in the southwest of the country in possession of three tons of cannabis. And a PJD governor is accused of using his political influence to try to force through the sale of 200 hectares (500 acres) of southeastern farmland. The latest furor caused by the in flagrante arrest of Omar Benhammad, 63, and Fatima Nejjar, 62, is all the more damaging to a party that extols Islamic moral behavior.
Some social media users in Morocco have reveled in the case, posting videos of Nejjar in full Islamic headdress exhorting female students not to give in to “temptation and vice”. Their case is a “tough lesson” for “a movement that calls people who go to festivals scoundrels, those who go out at night lewd, and that say men and women who mix will go to hell,” the Al Ahdath daily wrote. “Do as I say not as I do,” said a glib Huffington Post Morocco piece. Akhir Saa, a newspaper close to the rival PAM party, went further, claiming that successive scandals were a “big blow for political Islam represented by the PJD.”
‘Scheming and backstabbing’
The PJD remains popular in the conservative country, despite limited success in tackling corruption, and is credited with lowering the budget deficit. Supporters accuse the media and parties reportedly close to royal court circles of seeking to influence October’s vote with negative PJD coverage. Cleric Ahmed Raissouni, who is close to the PJD, denounced what he called “police machinations”. “The source of this aggression against the party today is made up of what I call the deep state,” according to PJD lawmaker Abdelaziz Aftati.
Sociologist Mohammed Ennaji used Facebook to criticize what he termed “scheming and backstabbing” against the Islamists. But others feel that the long charge sheet against the PJD exposes the double-standard governing the behavior of Morocco’s Islamist elite. Huffington Post Morocco criticized what it called the party’s “obsession and neurosis” over personal relationships, calling the beach affair a sign of its own “hypocrisy and frustrations”. – AFP
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MOSCOW: At least 16 migrant workers mostly from Kyrgyzstan died in a fire that broke out at a Moscow warehouse early yesterday, Russian authorities said. “When the fire was being put out, a room that had been cut off by the flames was discovered,” TASS news agency quoted the regional branch of the emergency ministry’s press service as saying. “Firefighters tore down the wall and found 16 dead.” Emergency workers arrived at the scene around 0500 GMT to put out a blaze that had engulfed 200 square meters of a warehouse in an industrial zone in the Russian capital’s north.
The fire at the four-floor facility, which is thought to belong to a local printing company, was extinguished at around 0700 GMT, authorities said. The head of the Moscow branch of the emergency ministry, Ilya Denisov, told Russian news agencies that the victims of the fire were migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyzstan’s foreign ministry later confirmed that 14 of the 16 people killed in the fire were Kyrgyz nationals. A representative of the Kyrgyz community in Moscow, Tursunbay Kurbatbekov, told TASS that a 16-year-old girl was thought to be among the dead.
An AFP journalist at the scene saw about three dozen migrant workers gathered outside the warehouse, some of whom wept as they awaited news of the people who had been in the building when the blaze broke out. Denisov said the fire was thought to have been caused by a broken lamp in a room containing large quantities of flammable liquids and paper products. “The fire spread from the first floor through the elevator shaft to the room in which the people were killed,” Interfax news agency quoted Denisov as saying.
Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote on Twitter that the people injured in the blaze had been taken to a local hospital and that the city would investigate the incident. “I am certain that those guilty will be found and punished,” Sobyanin wrote. The Moscow branch of Russia’s Investigative Committee said in a statement that it was still probing the circumstances surrounding the incident. A criminal investigation was launched to determine whether the blaze erupted due to arson or negligence. — AFP
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NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State John Kerry pressed yesterday for more cooperation with India on security and trade as the world’s two biggest democracies try to strengthen ties, in part to counter China’s rising influence. Kerry also said he was hopeful of moving ahead on a deal to provide nuclear energy assistance to India, as the nations seek to meet an ambitious goal of boosting annual trade fivefold to around $500 billion.
“I’m very, very confident that we will continue to strengthen what President Obama has called the defining partnership of the 21st century,” Kerry said in New Delhi, adding that cooperation on trade and security has “room to be able to further grow”. He was speaking before chairing a “strategic and commercial dialogue” with his counterpart Sushma Swaraj, launched by the nations’ leaders in 2015. Kerry, who will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday during the two-day visit, said he wanted progress on an agreement about construction of nuclear reactors.
“We also hope to see our civil nuclear cooperation take shape in the form of new reactors that will deliver reliable electricity to tens of millions of Indian households,” Kerry said. The deal involving US giant Westinghouse has been held up in the past by concerns over an Indian law that would make US companies liable for accidents at plants they helped build. Swaraj said she wanted to see closer military cooperation so that India could build more sophisticated hardware at home.
India, the world’s biggest arms importer, wants access to US technology so it can develop better weapons-a key part of Modi’s campaign to boost domestic manufacturing. India has historically relied heavily on Russia for arms imports, but has now turned to the US as it undergoes a lucrative and major modernization of its ageing military. “We want to take our expanding defense cooperation to the next stage of co-production and co-development,” Swaraj said.
Defense pact
The talks come one day after the two sides signed an agreement in Washington that allows access to each other’s military bases for repairs and resupplies. US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and his Indian counterpart Manohar Parrikar sealed the pact in efforts to strengthen defense ties to counter concerns over China’s growing military assertiveness. Carter said the agreement would make joint operations between their militaries logistically easier and more efficient.
Washington has increasingly turned its focus to Asia as it tries to counter China’s growing assertiveness in the South China Sea, and is eager for India to play a greater role in its network of regional defense alliances. Regional superpower China is expanding its deep-water naval presence and staking a claim to disputed areas of the South China Sea and the East China Sea. Both Carter and Parrikar stressed that the new agreement did not allow for US bases to be set up on Indian soil nor for troops to be stationed there.
US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, who is taking part in the talks in Delhi, has said the idea of increasing two-way trade from $100 billion to $500 billion was ambitious. Modi, who enjoys close ties with US President Barack Obama, pledged to overhaul India’s economy after winning landslide elections in 2014, to attract much-needed foreign investment and boost growth. Kerry arrived late Monday from Bangladesh where he said there was evidence to link the extremists behind a recent series of deadly attacks there to the Islamic State group._ AFP
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HARDAN: Surrounded by smoke and flames, the sound of gunshots echoing around him, the young man crouched in the creek for hours, listening to the men in his family die. On the other side of the mountain, another survivor peered through binoculars as the handcuffed men of neighboring villages were shot and then buried by a waiting bulldozer. For six days he watched as the extremists filled one grave after another with his friends and relatives.
Between them, the two scenes of horror on Sinjar mountain contain six burial sites and the bodies of more than 100 people, just a small fraction of the mass graves Islamic State extremists have scattered across Iraq and Syria. In exclusive interviews, photos and research, The Associated Press has documented and mapped 72 of the mass graves, the most comprehensive survey so far, with many more expected to be uncovered as the Islamic State group’s territory shrinks.
In Syria, AP has obtained locations for 17 mass graves, including one with the bodies of hundreds of members of a single tribe all but exterminated when IS extremists took over their region. For at least 16 of the Iraqi graves, most in territory too dangerous to excavate, officials do not even guess the number of dead. In others, the estimates are based on memories of traumatized survivors, Islamic State propaganda and what can be gleaned from a cursory look at the earth. Still, even the known victims buried are staggering – from 5,200 to more than 15,000.
Sinjar mountain is dotted with mass graves, some in territory clawed back from IS after the group’s onslaught against the Yazidi minority in August 2014; others in the deadly no man’s land that has yet to be secured. The bodies of Talal Murat’s father, uncles and cousins lie beneath the rubble of the family farm, awaiting a time when it is safe for surviving relatives to return to the place where the men were gunned down. On Sinjar’s other flank, Rasho Qassim drives daily past the graves holding the bodies of his two sons.
The road is in territory long since seized back, but the five sites are untouched, roped off and awaiting the money or the political will for excavation, as the evidence they contain is scoured away by the wind and baked by the sun. “We want to take them out of here. There are only bones left. But they said ‘No, they have to stay there, a committee will come and exhume them later,'” said Qassim, standing at the edge of the flimsy fence surrounding one site, where his two sons are buried. “It has been two years but nobody has come.”
IS made no attempt to hide its atrocities. In fact it boasted of them. But proving what United Nations officials and others have described as an ongoing genocide – and prosecuting those behind it will be complicated as the graves deteriorate. “We see clear evidence of the intent to destroy the Yazidi people,” said Naomi Kikoler, who recently visited the region for the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. “There’s been virtually no effort to systematically document the crimes perpetrated, to preserve the evidence, and to ensure that mass graves are identified and protected.”
Then there are the graves still out of reach. The Islamic State group’s atrocities extend well outside the Yazidi region in northern Iraq. Satellites offer the clearest look at massacres such as the one at Badoush Prison in June 2014 that left 600 male inmates dead. A patch of scraped earth and tire tracks show the likely killing site, according to exclusive photos obtained by the imagery intelligence firm AllSource Analysis. Of the 72 mass graves documented by AP, the smallest contains three bodies; the largest is believed to hold thousands, but no one knows for sure.
Watch the slaughter
On the northern flank of Sinjar mountain, five grave sites ring a desert crossroads. It is here that the young men of Hardan village are buried, under thistles and piles of cracked earth. They were killed in the bloody IS offensive of August 2014. Through his binoculars, Arkan Qassem watched it all. His village, Gurmiz, is just up the slope from Hardan, giving a clear view over the plain below. When the jihadis swept over the area, everyone in Gurmiz fled up the mountaintop for refuge. Then Arkan and nine other men returned to their village with light weapons to try to defend their homes.
Instead, all they could do was watch the slaughter below. Arkan witnessed the militants set up checkpoints, preventing residents from leaving. Women and children were taken away. Then the killings began. The first night, Arkan saw the militants line up a group of handcuffed men in the headlights of a bulldozer at an intersection, less than a kilometer (half mile) down the slope from Gurmiz. They gunned the men down, then the bulldozer plowed the earth over their bodies.
Over six days, Arkan and his comrades watched helplessly as the fighters brought out three more groups of men – several dozen each, usually with hands bound – to the crossroads and killed them. He didn’t always see what they did with the bodies. One time, he saw them lighting a bonfire, but he couldn’t see why. Finally, the jihadis brought in artillery and prepared to make an assault on Gurmiz. Arkan and his comrades fled up the mountain to where their families had taken refuge. Now, since IS fighters were driven out of the area, the 32-year-old has returned to his home.
But he’s haunted by the site. As documented by the aid group Yazda, which has mapped the Sinjar sites, the graves are in a rough pentagon flanking the crossroads, largely unprotected. Around one of them is a mesh fence and a wind-battered sign. As Arkan spoke at the site, a shepherd herded his flock nearby. “I have lots of people I know there. Mostly friends and neighbors,” he said. “It’s very difficult to look at them every day.”
‘My father’s clothes’
As IS fighters swarmed into the Sinjar area in early August 2014, Talal fled his town along with his father, mother, four sisters and younger brother. They and dozens of other men, women and children from his extended clan converged on an uncle’s farm outside the town of Tel Azer. They prayed it was remote enough to escape the killings that were already engulfing so many Yazidis. It wasn’t. The jihadis fired at the house from a distance. Then they rolled up in their vehicles and shot one man in the head as they stood in the yard. They surrounded the farmhouse, ordered everyone outside and demanded the impossible: Convert.
The Yazidi faith, one of the region’s oldest, has elements of Christianity and Islam but is distinct. Yazidis worship the Peacock Angel, fallen and forgiven by God under their tradition, and their shrines feature carved images of the birds and references to the sun. Muslim extremists condemned them as “devil worshippers” and over the centuries have subjected them to multiple massacres – 72, by the Yazidis’ count.
In its own propaganda, the Islamic State group made clear its intention to wipe out the Yazidi community. In an issue of its online English-language magazine Dabiq, it scolded Muslims for allowing the Yazidis to continue existing, calling their ancient religion a form of paganism. It quoted Quranic verses to justify killing the Yazidis unless they become Muslim. Thwarted in their halfhearted attempt at conversions, the fighters separated about 35 teenage girls and young women from the rest, crammed them into a few cars and drove away. The militants herded the older women and young children into the farmhouse and locked the door. Then they lined the men and teenaged boys against the wall of the stables – around 40 in all, including Talal.
There were too many of them, too bunched up, to efficiently mow down, so the fighters then ordered them to lie on the ground in a row, Talal said. That was when his uncle told him to make a run for it. Talal bolted into his uncle’s hayfield, as did several other men. The militants fired at them, and the bullets ignited the hay, dry from the summer sun. The fire covered Talal’s escape, and he took shelter in a nearby creek. There he hid, listening as the gunmen shot his family to death. He eventually fled toward the mountain, joined by three others who had survived the massacre. Four out of 40. Back at the farm, the gunmen eventually left and the women and children emerged, looking around with growing horror.
Nouri Murat, Talal’s mother, found her husband. His body was untouched, but his head was shattered. Her daughters, she said, were confused at first. “This is strange, this body is wearing my father’s clothes,” one of them said. As Nouri frantically searched around the property for any surviving menfolk, her 9-year-old daughter Rukhan lay down beside her father’s corpse. Finally, other women persuaded the family to head to the mountain before the Islamic State fighters returned. As they began the long walk north, Nouri noticed Rukhan’s bloody fist. Fearing her daughter was wounded, she pried open the girl’s clenched fingers. Inside were a handful of her father’s teeth.
They don’t hide their crimes
Nearly every area freed from IS control has unmasked new mass graves, like one found by the sports stadium in the Iraqi city of Ramadi. Many of the graves themselves are easy enough to find, most covered with just a thin coating of earth. “They don’t even try to hide their crimes,” said Sirwan Jalal, the director of Iraqi Kurdistan’s agency in charge of mass graves. “They are beheading them, shooting them, running them over in cars, all kinds of killing techniques, and they don’t even try to hide it.” No one outside IS has seen the Iraqi ravine where hundreds of Shiite prison inmates were killed point blank and then torched. Satellite images of scraped dirt along the river point to its location, according to Steve Wood of AllSource.
His analysts triangulated survivors’ accounts and began to systematically search the desert according to their descriptions of that day, June 10, 2014. The inmates were separated out by religion, and Shiites were loaded onto trucks, driven for a few kilometers and forced to line up and count off, according to accounts by 15 survivors gathered by Human Rights Watch. Then they knelt along the edge of the crescent-shaped ravine, according to a report cited by AllSource. “I was number 43. I heard them say ‘615,’ and then one ISIS guy said, ‘We’re going to eat well tonight.’
A man behind us asked, ‘Are you ready?’ Another person answered ‘Yes,’ and began shooting at us with a machine-gun. Then they all started to shoot us from behind, going down the row,” according to the Human Rights Watch account of a survivor identified only as AS. The men survived by pretending to be dead. Using their accounts and others, AllSource examined an image from July 17, 2014, that appeared to show the location as described, between a main road and the railway outside Mosul. The bodies are believed to be packed tightly together, side by side in a space approximately the length of two football fields end to end, in what the AllSource analysis described as a “sardine trench.”
Tire tracks lead to and from the site. “There’s actually earth that has been pushed over and actually moved to cover parts of the ravine. As we look across the entire ravine we only see that in this one location,” said Wood. “Ultimately there are many, many more sites across Iraq and Syria that have yet to be either forensically exhumed or be able to be detailed and there’s quite a bit more research that needs to take place.”
The key, Wood said, is having photos to indicate a grave’s location taken soon after its creation. Justice has been done in at least one IS mass killing – that of about 1,700 Iraqi soldiers who were forced to lie face-down in a ditch and then machine-gunned at Camp Speicher. On Aug 21, 36 men convicted in those killings were hanged at Iraq’s Nasiriyah prison. But justice is likely to be elusive in areas still firmly under IS control, even though the extremists have filmed themselves committing the atrocities. That’s the case for a deep natural sinkhole outside Mosul that is now a pit of corpses.
In Syria’s Raqqa province, thousands of bodies are believed to have been thrown into the giant Al-Houta crevasse. Conditions in much of Syria remain a mystery. Activists believe there are hundreds of mass graves in IS-controlled areas that can only be explored when fighting stops. By that time, they fear any effort to document the massacres, exhume and identify the remains will become infinitely more complicated.
Working behind IS lines, local residents have informally documented some mass graves, even partially digging some up. Some of the worst have been found in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour. There, 400 members of the Shueitat tribe were found in one grave, just some of the up to 1,000 members of the tribe believed to have been massacred by IS when the militants took over the area, said Ziad Awad, the editor of an online publication on Deir el-Zour called The Eye of the City who is trying to document the graves.
In Raqqa province, the bodies of 160 Syrian soldiers, killed when IS overran their base, were found in seven large pits. So far, at least 17 mass graves are known, though largely unreachable, in a list put together from AP interviews with activists from Syrian provinces still under IS rule as well as fighters and residents in former IS strongholds. “This is a drop in an ocean of mass graves expected to be discovered in the future in Syria,” said Awad.- AP
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LAHORE: Pakistani officials said Sunday that four Islamic extremists allegedly involved in a 2009 attack on the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team were killed in a shootout with police. The attack on the cricket team killed six police and two bystanders, and wounded six cricket players. The Pakistani Taleban and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, an affiliated extremist group, claimed the attack, which was carried out by 10 gunmen.
The shootout erupted late Saturday on the edge of Lahore when other gunmen tried to break the militants out of police custody, a counterterrorism official said. Another senior official confirmed the account. Both spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing retribution. Pakistan has stepped up its fight against extremist groups over the past two years, including with a military offensive in North Waziristan, a tribal region near the Afghan border and longtime stronghold of al-Qaida and other militants.
Yesterday, security forces raided a religious seminary on the outskirts of the southwestern city of Quetta, where a suicide bomber killed more than 70 people earlier this month, and sealed it when they found nearly 100 illegal Afghan immigrants residing there, provincial government spokesman Anwarul Haq said. Other such raids netted another 228 Afghans, said paramilitary spokesman Khan Wasey. It was unclear if the raids were linked to terrorism suspicions. Quetta is the capital of the southwestern Baluchistan province, which has long been the scene of a low-level insurgency by separatists groups. Islamic extremist groups also operate in the region. Six alleged recruiters for al-Qaida and the Islamic State group have been arrested in the province in recent days, according to provincial home minister Sarfaz Bugti. – AP
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MOGADISHU: At least 10 people, including soldiers and civilians, were killed in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu yesterday when a car bomb claimed by Al Shabaab exploded outside the Presidential Palace and also damaged two nearby hotels, an official said. Information Minister Mohamed Abdi Hayir told state radio that a meeting of security officials was under way inside one of the hotels, the SYL, at the time of blast and that one minister and some state radio journalists were injured in the attack. The hotel is frequented by government officials and police said it believed the facility was the likely target.
The SYL and another hospitality facility, both located near the Presidential Palace, were partially destroyed by the blast, Major Mohamed Ali, a police officer said. “The blast killed 10 (people) including soldiers and civilians and 30 others were wounded,” Ali said. Gunfire could be heard after the blast and a huge cloud of smoke rose above the palace, outside which were the remnants of the car and splattered blood, according to a Reuters witness.
Al Shabaab’s Radio Andaluz said the Islamist group was behind the attack and their military operations spokesman, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, said the attack had killed 15 soldiers and “injured many others including a lawmaker”. Seeking to impose its own harsh form of Islam, Al Shabaab, wants to topple the Western backed government in Mogadishu and also push out the 22,000-strong African Union mandated AMISOM peace keeping force backing it.
The group was pushed out of Mogadishu by AMISOM in 2011 but have remained a serious threat, launching frequent attacks aimed at overthrowing the government. The militants have claimed responsibility for several explosions in Mogadishu, including a car bomb and gun attack last week at a popular beach restaurant in the capital that killed 10 people. In a separate incident, al Shabaab fighters attacked military bases housing government and African Union troops south west of the capital Mogadishu late on Monday, police and the group said yesterday. Military officer Major Bile Farah said a soldier and two Al Shabaab fighters were killed in the attack in K-50 and Muri in Lower Shabelle region. Abu Musab told Reuters the group’s fighters had killed 10 soldiers and commandeered a vehicle from the Somali government soldiers in the Monday attack. —Reuters
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KUWAIT: The number of strategic projects in Kuwait’s development plan for the 2016/2017 fiscal year reaches 26, with a total value of over KD 2 billion, or an average of KD 64 million for each venture, a government official said yesterday.
Kuwait is currently witnessing an era of executing a number of developmental projects, in addition to housing projects and others carried out through the public private partnership (PPP) module, said Hind Al-Subaih, Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and State Minister of Planning and Development.
Meanwhile, Subaih said that there are six projects to be carried out by the Partnership Technical Bureau in the 2017/2018 fiscal year, with an estimated total value of KD 6 billion, which makes up nearly 25 percent of strategic projects’ total cost. In addition, the same fiscal year includes one project for shareholding companies with an estimated value of KD 611 million. Therefore, projects to be carried out through the public private partnership and shareholding companies’ concepts would make up 28 percent of strategic projects’ total cost.
Annual development plans include several key projects such as the metro and railway project to be carried out as per the PPP concept, in addition to strategic projects in the health and education fields, Subaih added.
Gas stations closed
Gas stations around Kuwait will stop operations half an hour before midnight Wednesday, and will resume work on the early hours of Thursday using the new tariffs for gasoline announced last month. The new prices, which officially become effective on September 1, are as follows: 85 fils for premium gasoline (42 percent increase), 105 for super gasoline (62 percent increase) and 165 fils for ultra gasoline (83 percent).
Price control
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry is ready to implement its plan to monitor prices as soon as the new gasoline tariffs are implemented, said Eid Al-Rashidi, the Undersecretary Assistant for Commercial Control and Customer Protection Affairs. Ministry inspectors will tour markets around Kuwait in order to detect any cases in which prices are increased without valid reasons, Rashidi said. He urged consumers to contact the hotline: 135 in case they encounter any fabricated price increase incidents.
Labor protest
Around 200 workers employed by a major company demonstrated outside the Palace of Justice yesterday to demand monthly salaries they have not received in six months, according to their statements. The Asian laborers, whose average monthly salary reaches KD 70 each, said that they went to the Palace of Justice because they could not find anywhere else to demand their rights. The services’ director at the Palace of Justice then met the workers and explained to them that the right place to make their complaint is the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor, so they walked there to file their grievance.
Five languages
Kuwait Human Rights Society released booklets containing the domestic helpers’ law with all of its articles in five different languages: Arabic, English, Tagalog, Hindi and Urdu. The project was carried out in cooperation with the Dutch embassy in Kuwait. It was produced and distributed in cooperation with the Domestic Labor Department at the Interior Ministry, said Khaled Al-Humaidi, the society’s chairman. The booklet is part of a series of publications that also include the labor law, and which aims at raising awareness among expatriate labor forces regarding their rights, Humaidi added.
Lower temperatures
Humidity levels are expected to drop before the weekend, while hot and dry weather with relatively lower temperatures during the night should prevail during the first week of September, veteran meteorologist Essa Ramadan said.
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KUWAIT: Kubbar Island is one of the well-known locations in Kuwait known for being a safe haven for wildlife and a popular spot for sea enthusiast. Located in the southern region of Kuwait, Kubbar Island is situated near the marine route for oil and commercial tankers passing in the Gulf waters. The Island has a communication tower erected there and also a heliport which is mainly used by the coast guards during emergencies.
Kubbar Island is circular in shape with a diameter of 370 to 380 meters. The Island is known for its coral reefs which makes it a popular destination for scuba divers. The weather in Kubbar Island is mostly moderate in temperature, reaching about 39 Degrees Celsius during daytime in summer while dipping to about 27 Degrees Celsius during the evening. At certain seasons, the Island thrives with various kinds of birds who usually make a stop at the Island on their annual migration.
It is among nature’s best spectacles. It is relatively Small Sandy Island in the Arabian Gulf located in close proximity to Fahaleel. Kubbar is located approximately 29 kilometers off the coast of Failaka and 30 kilometers off the southern coast of Kuwait. The Kubbar Island is a serene getaway that gives Kuwait its pride in picturesque locations. The island is nothing short of spectacular and is unspoiled in every way. The sparkling blue waters and grainy crystal sands make the beaches on the island so enticing for the tourists. Even though the island’s infrastructure remains yet to be developed, the Kubbar Island local tourist industry is beginning to flourish; it provides boating, sailing, swimming and water sports.- Agencies
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KUWAIT: Kuwait needs highly skilled workers for executing mega development projects, affirmed the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor yesterday.
Dr Hind Al-Subaih, also the Minister of State for Planning Affairs and Development, made the affirmation during a meeting with a visiting delegation from Malawi, headed by Henry Mussa, the minister of labor. Minister Subaih added that the manpower authority would operate a hot-line soon to receive complaints from the diplomatic missions concerning the working expatriates.
Minister Subaih also affirmed necessity of bolstering the bilateral ties between the State of Kuwait and the friendly republic, as well as looking into avenues for optimal benefit from the skilled personnel in that country. The meeting was attended by Director General of the Public Authority for Manpower Abdullah Al- Mutawtah. —KUNA
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BEIRUT: Eleven children were killed on yesterday in a barrel bomb attack carried out by government forces on a rebel-held neighborhood of Syria’s Aleppo city, a monitor said. “Fifteen civilians, among them 11 children, were killed in a barrel bomb attack on the Bab al-Nayrab neighborhood” in southern Aleppo city, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.
It also reported eight civilians, including two children, were killed yesterday in rebel fire on the government-held west of the city.-AFP
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PARIS: Honor, the world’s No 1 smartphone e-brand from Huawei, has announced it is preparing for the launch of its new flagship device: Huawei honor 8, a smartphone that embraces the unique combination of premium technology and unparalleled aesthetics. The much anticipated honor 8 is coming to Kuwait on Sept 6, 2016, available for pre-order Aug 25 on HonorArabia.com.
Hot on the heels of its global launch in China, as well as its US and Europe debut, honor’s latest release has received a raft of impressive reviews from users, particularly praising the exquisite craftsmanship and design, as well as the world class dual camera features.
Cultivating a profound design philosophy, honor has created a stunning device for trailblazing users always on the hunt for something different. Its two-sided 2.5-D glass body, 3D grate design and 15-layer craftsmanship on the back of the handset, reflects light beautifully, creating a true style statement.
Chris Sun Baigong, VP of Huawei honor Middle East CBG, commented: “By listening to our end-users and paying attention to the smallest details, we have taken the holistic approach and created something truly distinctive. Honor 8 has a design that is beautifully stylish coupled with excellent usability, an essential aspect that contributes to its outstanding day-to-day user experience.”
George Zhao, president of Huawei honor, said: “After three years of developing the brand worldwide, honor has matured and gained acknowledgement for focusing on our end-users and product quality first and foremost over revenue, which are the strategic winning points for the brand. The latest launch of our flagship honor 8 reflects this approach, and we are confident in its success with our end-users, as well as our growth as a brand this year – so stay tuned.”
With an impressive 100 percent year-on-year growth globally, honor shows no signs of slowing down, particularly in the Middle East where the brand has experienced unprecedented growth to date. Chris, VP of honor, envisages that the Middle East market will remain stable, but the brand is poised for further growth as its approach is wholly user-centric to meet user demand.
Kuwait Times spoke to Chris to learn more about the new flagship smartphone.
Kuwait Times: What are the main strengths that honor boasts in a market that witnesses ongoing competition?
Chris: Our main strength is always about focusing on the end-user and what they need to ultimately give them a better user experience. After three years developing the brand worldwide, honor has matured and gained acknowledgement for focusing on our end-users and product quality first and foremost over revenue, which are the strategic winning points for the brand. We focus on the performance of our smartphones and how they not only fit seamlessly into the end-user’s lifestyles, but also improve and enhance using cutting edge technology and smart features. Ultimately, that is what makes us different and that is the ethos that runs through everything we do.
Honor has access to the ultimate tech innovations, with strong research and development capabilities through our parent company Huawei that allows us to create the best products. The latest launch of our flagship honor 8 reflects this approach, and we are confident in its success with our end-users, as well as our growth as a brand this year – so stay tuned!
KT: What are the main features on which you focus in this product, compared to the previous generation?
Chris: The most important element that we have focused on with this new flagship phone is the design and aesthetics. From our own consumer research, we noticed that smartphone users are highly critical of appearance and the feedback we keep hearing across the board is that “all phones look similar”; this was a key insight for us to consider, particularly as a smartphone is so integral to their daily life. So, not only is there a strong demand for better specs and features which of course is integral to their experience, but also better looking phones.
For Huawei honor, we believe in thinking outside the box. With this in mind, the Huawei honor 8 is encased in 15 layers of carefully crafted glass, integrating quality and design to meet the current personalities and style of this generation. It is the most advanced smartphone in terms of design that we have ever produced and we are incredibly excited to be launching it.
Not only this – but we have incorporated a 12MP dual rear camera into this newest device as we know from our own research just how important the camera and its features are to users. For example, at honor, we always try to predict trends and as such we were the first in the world to bring the most well-known dual rear camera to market with the honor 6 plus. Based on its popularity with our users as well as the feedback on photo quality, we have incorporated it into the honor 8 as well a more advanced dual camera with a RGB and monochrome sensor.
Based on a recent study we did in the UAE, we noticed that people in the UAE spend almost half of their holidays on their phones and most of that time is spent using the camera and taking photos.
KT: How can you maintain your leadership in a highly competitive and rapidly changing market?
Chris: Huawei honor has 100 percent growth year-on-year which is delivering a 15 percent contribution to Huawei’s extensive progression in the Middle East. Globally, honor’s revenue contributed 30 percent to Huawei’s registered 69 percent revenue growth in 2015 compared to the previous year.
We believe in staying one step ahead with our user centric approach to product development and unique understanding of the needs of our users. The brand offers innovative high quality, high performance products and services more accessible than other brands. honor is committed to bringing more amazing user experiences to the Middle East with its portfolio (honor 6 Plus, honor 4X, honor 7, honor 5X and honor 8). The honor product portfolio spans varying price points to service the diverse consumer needs and demands. The Huawei owned interface, EMUI, is developed directly using feedback from consumers to enhance the experience.
KT: What is the time period or factors separating the launch of two phones? Does your strategy differ among different global markets?
Chris: We pride ourselves in tailoring our strategies and products based on the need for each market. Thus, you will notice that some of our products that we launch in the region we don’t launch globally and vice versa. We have access to the biggest R&D centers and thus are always looking for innovation to meet the constantly changing needs for the end user. As a smartphone brand, all of our global markets are equally as important. Globally our consumers are living online more and more, so with our brave factory to consumer business model, we offer these ‘digital natives’ high quality products more accessibly. This is not different in the Middle East, which is one of the top global markets for honor.
We are no longer in a time where smartphones are just considered a technological device. We know that for the digital generation who live and breathe online, their smartphone is an extension of themselves and a tool that not only fits into their lifestyle, but enhances it. Smartphones are used as the key to many aspects of people’s lifestyles. At honor we understand this as the end-user is ‘king’ in our eyes and we utilize their feedback in order to develop our brand, products and services. ?
KT: What features do you focus on in your products, from battery, applications, high resolution camera and affordable prices for various markets?
Chris: We noticed that in this region, the users’ main feature of a phone is the camera and also the design of the phone itself. Thus we decided for our latest flagship – the Huawei honor 8 – to focus on these needs which reflects the definition of beauty and combines it with technology. In this day and age, the mobile phones market is packed with constant changes focusing on configurations, whereas at Huawei honor, we are at the core of the smartphone user experience in addition to configuration, communications and software experience, design of the phone, camera, battery life etc. We always try to incorporate all these important features in a seamless state of the art experience which what we have managed to integrate and achieve with honor 8.
With more than 10 years’ experience in the ICT industry, Chris is well-placed to head up the honor brand in the Middle East, which is set to revolutionize the smartphone market in this region. Having completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Automation in China, he became an account manager at Huawei. Within just one year of joining, he was named “Best New Staff Member of 2005 – 2006” and received the award of “Customer Relationship Enhancement”.
In 2007, Chris moved to the United Arab Emirates where he was appointed Etisalat Global Key Account Director, in charge of the International Investment Department, concentrating on new international acquisitions and projects. In 2010, he moved to Islamabad in Pakistan where his work was recognized as being in the “Top Five Best Overall Performance Accounts”- in both 2010 and 2011.
He was assigned as the GM of STC KA in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2012 to seek opportunities within the government sector, large enterprises and SMEs. In his current role as Vice President, Chris led the introduction of Huawei Honor to the region. Since its launch in 2013, Honor had already entered 74 markets and recorded 100 percent growth year-on-year by 2015.
A regular speaker at some of ICT’s leading seminars, Baigong says: “We believe in digital, and we believe the digital era has come for Middle East. Honor’s vision is to bring more people into the wonderful connected digital world.”
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Amir meets new heads of football, Olympic bodies – Police seize sports offices; IOC, AFC concerned
KUWAIT: Authorities ordered police to seize the state’s football association and Olympic committee offices. The action on Sunday heightened a standoff that has seen Kuwait suspended by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and world football’s governing body FIFA since October.
The country did not take part in this year’s Rio Olympics and will not contest the qualifiers for football’s 2018 World Cup. As part of his keenness on the issue, HH the Amir yesterday received top officials of the two interim committees tasked with taking care of affairs at the Kuwait Olympic Committee (KOC) and the Kuwait Football Association (KFA).
The Amir encouraged the officials to exert utmost efforts to promote the sports and youth sector in Kuwait, and to bring those who break the law to justice.
The move came after the government’s sports commission ousted Sheikh Talal Fahd Al-Sabah as head of the KFA and KOC. Sheikh Fahd Jaber Al-Ali has been named as the new head of the Olympic committee.
Fawaz Al-Hassawi, who was named as new head of the football association, is the owner of English Championship side Nottingham Forest. Police seized the offices of the football association but failed to take over the Olympic committee headquarters. At a press conference after the football offices were seized, Hassawi promised increased prizes in the Kuwaiti championship.
However, the ousted head said authorities had used “threat and intimidation” in an official notice demanding that the KFA offices be handed over. Sheikh Talal, in a statement released by KFA, said he had been accused of “financial violations”, over which he demanded an investigation by Kuwaiti prosecutors.
The government action raised question marks over the “rule of institutions” in the state, he said, charging that it was a “personal” campaign. “They have to understand that what was taken by force from us today shall be taken back tomorrow by the rule of law and the justice of the cause and the support of the international and local Olympic movement.” The sports commission is headed by Youth and Information Minister Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al- Hmoud Al-Sabah, who has sought greater control over Kuwait’s sports bodies. The IOC and FIFA suspended Kuwait last October over a law giving the government the right to intervene in sports bodies. A new law was passed in June but the IOC said this only increased government powers.
The IOC and FIFA maintain that Sheikh Talal is the legitimate head of the two associations. The IOC yesterday strongly condemned the actions of Kuwaiti authorities. “The IOC strongly condemns these actions which, regrettably, continue to worsen the situation instead of helping to find solutions,” said a letter sent by the IOC after the police action. A copy of the letter, sent to Sheikh Salman, was obtained by AFP. “The IOC will hold the government authorities responsible for any loss or damage to the KOC properties and assets, in particular those derived from IOC/Olympic Movement funding,” the letter warned.
The IOC letter said the Olympic movement would not recognize any of the “the so-called ‘interim committee’ appointed by government authorities in place of the duly elected office-bearers”. The Asian Football Confederation has also told its members not to cooperate with the new leadership of the KFA.
The IOC said it was “still hoping that reason and common sense will prevail” in the standoff. “The IOC calls on the highest authorities of Kuwait to work constructively and responsibly on a solution … instead of taking actions which have no effect other than to make the situation worse,” said the letter. — Agencies
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Sheep prices up ahead of Eid
KUWAIT: With Eid Al Adha just around the corner, the livestock market is seeing an unreasonable hike in prices. Demand for sheep has pushed the price of Nuaimi sheep to KD 120-150, while Iranian sheep prices have reached KD 60-80, depending on the breed, source, age and size. During Eid Al-Adha, Muslims who have the means are required to sacrifice an animal, usually a sheep, cow, goat, buffalo or camel. Kuwait Times visited the sheep market to find out the price trends.
“The price of sheep ranges from KD 60 to KD 150, with Nuaimi sheep the most expensive,” said Badri, a trader at the market. He told Kuwait Times that prices are expected to go up as Eid approaches. “The price of Nuaimi sheep is KD 140 to KD 150 for large animals and KD 120 for small ones, Shafali sheep sell for KD 75 to KD 90, Australian KD 55, Jordanian KD 110, Arabian hybrid from KD 75 to KD 80, Iranian for KD 80, and Saudi for KD 120 to KD 130,” he said. Badri said buyers should be aware that Muslims should only sacrifice healthy sheep and they can know this from its teeth.
Mohiuddeen, a Bangladeshi seller, said the price of sheep is determined by type and weight and most customers prefer bigger sheep for sacrifice. “Local sheep is in more demand and they weigh up to 20 kilos. We have other sheep that weigh 20 kg to 25 kg, in addition to Nuaimi and Saudi sheep that are known for their large size,” he said. Mohiuddeen predicted that prices will remain the same. He asked people to check if the sheep they buy is sick or not by looking at the way it stands and if its head is down. He advised buyers to pay attention to the sheep’s horns too.
“Prices of Kuwaiti sheep range from KD 90 to KD 120, Iranian sheep KD 60 to KD 65, and Saudi and the Syrian sheep KD 120 to 150. There are no Australian sheep in the market now,” said Hussain, another seller. He added that sheep for Eid are not ready yet. Hussain said that the most popular sheep varieties now are Shafali, Syrian, Jordanian, and Iranian, apart from the local ones. “We maintain the same prices on all days because we don’t want to exploit our customers,” he said.
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Interview with Zahra Al-Mahdi (Zouz the Bird)
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Interview with Zahra Al-Mahdi (Zouz the Bird)
Known mostly for her anatomical drawings – think da Vinci or Egon Schiele – and by her nickname Zouz the Bird, Zahra Al-Mahdi is a self-taught Kuwaiti artist and among a growing body of local artists changing the face of art and culture in Kuwait. “There’s no definition for myself – sometimes I feel that I’m seven years old, sometimes seventy. Goals should not be associated with age. My view of myself is always shifting,”
Zahra told Kuwait Times. Zahra is a self taught artist. “When you study English Literature, you learn about philosophy, economy and sociology and get acquainted with all aspects of life, which helps an artist to communicate with others through art,” she reasoned.
Good art is dynamic. It tells you new things every time you come back to see it. In reality, not all arts reach the stage of immortality. Sometimes, the artist makes a work of art to serve a particular issue in a certain time and space. “Once the artwork comes to light, public interpretation moves primarily alongside the artist’s statement,” Zahra said. “Sometimes, artists paint for the plain pleasure of art and beauty. In fact, everybody can write or paint something meaningless or with a message. So how does it communicate? This goes back to the viewers. The artist will convey the message, whether intended or not.”
We Are All Borrowed
Speaking of meanings, language is an ever-changing tool of communication. In Zahra’s first graphic novel ‘We Are All Borrowed’, she shows that our language, apparel and lifestyle are all borrowed, but we insist on finding origins and nobility. “My book is an overview of the fact that words are not possessed by anyone – we just speak them. One word stands for many things – not only in its form and context, but by the tone of voice. When I say that I went to a doctor, the first thing that pops into your head is that he is a man,” Zahra explained. “My character tries to ride out of this spectrum and ends up physically restrained after a series of bitter situations,” she added. We Are All Borrowed is written in both English and Arabic. Some pages are puzzling and some revolting, while some are laced with a tinge of dark comedy over the muddled conditions in Kuwait, which makes it not suitable for children.
Frustration is key to inspiration
“I get inspired by frustration, contradictions and things that are far from logic and wisdom, and I harness art to serve society. I can’t wait for the upcoming cultural season in winter to volunteer to create murals and graffiti. Earlier this year, I had a chance to collaborate with the Abolish 153 campaign, which demands abolition of Article 153 from the Kuwaiti penal code that justifies ‘honor killings’ of women by their male relatives if they’re found engaged in sexual acts. My work depicts women as child-making machines with a blank price tag,” Zahra said. The campaign held its exhibition in the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait with participation by artists from various Arab countries.
The eye of Einstein and Foucault
The surroundings of the artist complement the things she imagines. “I draw on the photos I take of things around me to make people visualize what is going on in my mind. My Instagram account @zouzthebird has many such examples. To me, this is hardly a practice to improve my creative thinking skill, so I view things from the perspective of Einstein and Foucault. Creativity is not merely sensational – it’s a practice and you have to be disciplined in a way,” noted Zahra. Zahra is currently working on her second book and a series of exhibitions, in addition to her first YouTube animation series. “It will take me a great deal of time to write this book. However, it’s going to be part of my ongoing reflection related to a series of artworks,” she revealed.
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Low oxygen levels blamed for fish kill
KUWAIT: The Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) said yesterday its scientists gathered samples of dead fish along with samples from deep and offshore waters at the Kuwait Bay area and the northern area. In a press statement, KISR stated that the researchers have gathered the data from those two areas to calculate oxygen ratio in the waters and in the marine sediments where they also identified the current environmental status and its future effect on the Marine life.
The statement added that all collected data is shared with the Environment Public Authority (EPA) after conducting full survey in cooperation of the Public Authority of Agriculture Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAAFR).
The results showed a decrease of oxygen concentration in the seawaters with less than four milligrams in one liter in coherence with the increase of the water temperature and high humidity, in addition to the increase of Salinity which affected the oxygen in water, the statement said.
Conclusions of the recent survey and researches showed that the oxygen was below 1mg for each liter and the marine sediments in the southern area had a notable increase in the marine organisms in the area which increased the consumption of oxygen and decreased its condensation in the waters.
The bay witnessed occurrences fish death, latest of which was in June 2015 and September 2014, where the oxygen concentration was below average with four mg in the liter, the statement concluded. — KUNA
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Kuwait tackles dwindling fish wealth
KUWAIT: Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) launched yesterday the second phase of a national campaign titled ‘enriching the fish wealth,’ effective September. Dr Khaled Abdulelah, in charge of KISR’s fish breeding, said that the institute will release into the sea waters up to 135,000 fish during the coming days; in coordination with government authorities and public welfare societies.
The institute, in the first stage of the campaign, released more than 126, 000 fish into the territorial waters, he said, indicating that the project is vital to make up for dwindling amounts of the fish in Kuwait’s sea waters. He called for abstention from excessive fishing or acts that damage the marine environment. The first phase of the project, patronized by His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, was launched last August. — KUNA
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Beyonce proves she’s in a lane of her own at MTV VMAs
Beyonce proved once again she is the contemporary rock star, and she used the MTV Video Music Awards stage to showcase her skills and outshine her peers, from Rihanna to Britney Spears. Beyonce won eight awards, including video of the year, and performed five songs from her visual album “Lemonade” in an epic 16-minute concert Sunday that had the audience at Madison Square Garden in awe. She sang live, danced heavily and worked the crowd as she ran through “Pray You Catch Me,” “Hold Up,” “Sorry,” “Don’t Hurt Yourself” and “Formation,” which won the top prize over Adele, Drake, Justin Bieber and Kanye West.
“First of all, I’d like to thank my beautiful daughter and my incredible husband for all of their support,” said Beyonce, who walked the carpet with daughter Blue Ivy and the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Eric Garner – who all appeared in “Lemonade” movie. It was reminiscent of the 2014 VMAs, when Beyonce also performed for 16 minutes and accepted the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award. This year it was awarded to Rihanna, who split up her performances throughout the night, singing hits such as “Work,” “We Found Love” and “Love on the Brain.” But the biggest moment for Rihanna came when Drake – in a tuxedo – presented the award to his former girlfriend. He said he met Rihanna in 2005 on the set of her first music video for “Pon de Replay.”
My family, my fans, my country
“She’s someone I’ve been in love with her since I was 22 years old,” Drake said as Rihanna blushed and the audience cheered loudly. “She’s one of my best friends in the world. All of my adult life I’ve looked up to her even though she’s younger than me.” Rihanna, 28, thanked her family, friends and hometown of Saint Michael, Barbados, for helping her succeed in her 11-year-career. “My success started as my dream, but now my success is not my own. It’s my family, my fans, my country …it’s women, it’s black women,” she said.
Beyonce’s top-notch performance starkly contrasted with that of Spears, who returned to the VMA stage after 10 years. Not only did she lip sync, in typical fashion, but she did so badly. Spears performed her hit “Make Me…” and danced slickly, but she didn’t actually sing a word of the song live. She was joined by rapper G-Eazy – and she lip synched the hook to his hit song, “Me, Myself and I.” In true Kanye fashion, the rapper ranted onstage, touching on subjects from music to his beef with Taylor Swift to violence in his hometown Chicago before he debuted his music video for “Fade,” which starred Teyana Taylor. He talked about his “Famous” video, which features what appear to be naked images of himself, his wife Kim Kardashian, Swift, Donald Trump and others. He even pointed to former girlfriend Amber Rose, who was in the audience and is also in the video.
Drake won best hip hop video for “Hotline Bling” and Calvin Harris won best male video for “This is What You Came For.” David Bowie – who died from cancer earlier this year – received four nominations for “Lazarus” and won best art direction. The music video, which shows him looking frail in bed with bandaged eyes, was released just days before the icon’s Jan 10 death. Performers included Nick Jonas, The Chainsmokers, Ty Dollar $ign and Ariana Grande, who brought spin class to the VMA stage when she sang the reggae-tinged “Side to Side” with Nicki Minaj.
Introducing Future
In one of several odes to the recent Olympic Games, Michael Phelps said he’s been inspired by hip-hop music before introducing Future, who Phelps said he listened to before swimming and making the grimace that went viral. The rapper-singer-producer performed his hit “(Expletive) Up Some Commas.” Jimmy Fallon, who presented video of the year, dressed as Ryan Lochte and even sported the platinum blonde hair. As Lochte – who is dealing with trouble after filing a false robbery report over an incident during the Rio Olympics – Fallon lied onstage about writing Justin Bieber’s “Sorry” and directing the clips nominated for video of the year.
Other presenters include Alicia Keys, Puff Daddy and four of the Final Five gymnasts (Gabby Douglas was hospitalized for a mouth infection). Adele was behind Beyonce with eight nominations, but the British singer did not attend the show and did not win any Moon Men. Beyonce’s wins included best female video, pop video, breakthrough long-form video, choreography, direction, cinematography and editing.-AP
Winners
Video of the year: Beyonce, “Formation.”
Female video: Beyonce, “Hold Up.”
Male video: Calvin Harris feat. Rihanna, “This is What You Came For.”
New artist: DNCE.
Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award: Rihanna.
Pop video: Beyonce, “Formation.”
Hip hop video: Drake, “Hotline Bling.”
Rock video: twenty one pilots, “Heathens.”
Electronic video: Calvin Harris & Disciples, “How Deep Is Your Love.”
Collaboration video: Fifth Harmony feat. Ty Dolla $ign, “Work from Home.”
Breakthrough long-form video: Beyonce, “Lemonade”
Song of summer: Fifth Harmony feat. Fetty Wap, “All in My Head (Flex).”
Art direction: David Bowie, “Blackstar” (Jan Houllevigue).
Choreography: Beyonce, “Formation” (Chris Grant, JaQuel Knight, Dana Foglia).
Direction: Beyonce, “Formation” (Melina Matsoukas).
Cinematography: Beyonce, “Formation” (Malik Sayeed).
Editing: Beyonce, “Formation” (Jeff Selis).
Visual effects: Coldplay, “Up&Up” (Vania Heymann). — AP
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Zain Iraq, Ericsson extend managed services deal – Three-year deal to optimize network and IT operations
BAGHDAD: Zain Iraq and Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) have signed a three-year extension of their network and IT operation and optimization managed services agreement.
Under the extended agreement, Ericsson will continue to optimize, transform and manage network and IT operations for Zain’s nationwide 3G mobile network in Iraq, which currently includes over 4,200 sites across the country. This agreement will allow Zain to focus on expanding its network and offering appealing voice and highly demanded data services to meet customer needs, especially in the corporate sector.
The deal will result in Zain ramping up its offer to deliver best quality of service and experience to its 11.2 million customers using Ericsson’s managed services capabilities. The agreement also sees Zain benefit from a reduction in operating costs (OPEX) while offering customers improved data service quality and availability, given the pent-up demand for mobile broadband in the country.
Furthermore, Zain will be able to increase its focus on its core customer-facing business activities such as managing customer relationships and offering a shorter time-to-market for the delivery of new services and technologies.
Scott Gegenheimer, Zain Group Chief Executive Officer, says: “Through this agreement, Zain Iraq will be better positioned to support the evolution and growth of the telecommunication industry in the country and ensure that all Iraqis receive urgently-needed quality mobile telecommunication services. Social volatility has led to network instability in this huge and significant market for Zain, and as we strive to continue providing connectivity for our valued customers, our close relationship with Ericsson enables us to maintain vital mobile services and further contribute to the economic and social development of Iraq’s economy.”
Rafiah Ibrahim, Head of Middle East and East Africa at Ericsson, says: “Today’s announcement is another testimony of our long-term partnership with Zain in Iraq and across other markets. Throughout the years, we helped Zain in Iraq to provide a differentiated experience to its customers and we look forward to continuing our partnership and transform Zain’s network with our experience centric managed services offerings.”
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London police arrested more than 100 people amid sporadic violence Sunday at the annual Notting Hill Carnival, an annual celebration of Caribbean culture in the British capital that often includes trouble on the sidelines. The Metropolitan Police reported at least four knife attacks during the opening day of the two-day festival in west London.
It said four males aged 15 to 20 were wounded, with one 15-year-old boy hospitalized in critical condition. Sunday’s festivities included a colorful child-oriented parade through west London that attracted tens of thousands of revelers, many of whom danced in the streets to the sound of steel drums and reggae bands. Scores of paramedics were on hand to provide MASH-style units for carnival-goers injured or unwell from alcohol or drugs. Medical beds were deployed at roadsides in some locations.
The London Ambulance Service reported shortly before midnight that 411 people had received medical care at the carnival, 77 of whom needed to be hospitalized. Police said 105 people were arrested on charges that included drug possession, carrying knives, assault, sexual offenses and theft. The carnival, founded in 1966 by West Indian immigrants following the Notting Hill race riots of 1958, frequently has involved clashes with police. Many local businesses have closed during the event since 1977, when police stormed the carnival amid looting of shops.
The 2008 festivities ended in a street riot. Last year, police arrested 407 people, a record for an event where knifings committed by youth gangs have become a troubling trend. This year police have deployed a 7,000-strong force to keep the peace. The carnival remains one of Europe’s biggest street parties with hundreds of thousands attending each year. It takes place at the end of August on the last two days of a three-day weekend. — AP
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KUWAIT: Thefts remain the most committed type of crime committed in Kuwait, according to official statistics. A total of 934 theft crimes were committed during the first half of 2016, according to statistics released by the public prosecution for crimes investigated during that period. It is followed by drug and alcohol related crimes (927), murder and battery assault (360), sexual assault (175) and kidnap (139).
Meanwhile, the same statistics show that juveniles’ crimes have increased by 122 percent, as 1,399 were committed during the first half of 2016 compared to only 617 committed last year. Meanwhile, information technology crimes came in second place among misdemeanor crimes with 1,171 crimes, which is a high rate considering that the cybercrime law went into effect in January of this year.
The public prosecution investigated in a total of 7,868 during the first half of 2016, out of which 4,281 were referred to court while 3,012 (40 percent) cases were shelved. —Al-Qabas
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KUWAIT: The successful housing plan in which a large number of units were distributed and power was connected in new cities such as the Jaber Al-Ahmad area is expected to lead to further drop in apartments’ rents in Kuwait, said high ranking sources at the Public Authority for Housing Welfare (PAHW).
This factor coupled with others including the drop in oil prices as well as supply and demand has led to notable reduction in the real estate market’s inflation, said the sources. —Al-Rai
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LONDON: Joe Root’s 89 saw England to a fourwicket win over Pakistan in the second one-day international at Lord’s yesterday. Victory put England 2-0 up in the five-match series after their 44-run rain-affected success at Southampton on Wednesday. Aggressive pace bowling, with Chris Woakes and Mark Wood taking three wickets apiece, left England chasing a modest target of 252. Pakistan had collapsed to two for three before Sarfraz Ahmed’s 105, the first ODI hundred by a Pakistan player at Lord’s, and Imad Wasim’s 63 not out kept the tourists in the match.
The pair put on 77 for the sixth wicket. After a couple of early stumbles in their reply, a thirdwicket partnership of 112 between Root and England captain Eoin Morgan (68) effectively put the result beyond doubt. Left-hander Morgan’s knock on his Middlesex home ground ended a run of 23 international innings without a fifty for the former Ireland star. England’s chase suffered a setback when inform opener Jason Roy-who made a dashing 65 at Southampton-fell for a second-ball duck as he played on to Mohammad Amir.
HALES FAILS
Root steadied England nerves with two fours in as many balls off Hasan Ali a cover-drive followed by a cut. But opener Alex Hales’s lean run continued when he was bowled for 14 trying to slog-sweep left-arm spinner Wasim. That left England 35 for two but Root and Morgan took the game away from Pakistan, the skipper hitting nine fours before he too was bowled by Wasim. Ben Stokes made a brisk 42 before Root, whose innings featured just five fours and 53 singles, holed out off Wahab Riaz with England in sight of the winning post at 240 for six. Woakes ended the match with 15 balls to spare when he cut leg-spinner Yasir Shah, England’s tormentor in chief during Pakistan’s Test win at Lord’s earlier this season, for four.
Pakistan, who saw captain Azhar Ali win the toss and bat on a cloudy morning, lost recalled opener Sami Aslam (one) following an England review after his attempted pull off Woakes was held down the legside by wicket-keeper Jos Buttler. There was no hot-spot mark but Australian third umpire Simon Fry decide the spike on real time snicko was large enough to give Aslam out.
But there was no doubt at all when Wood dismissed Sharjeel Khan for nought with an express delivery that cut sharply off the seam to knock over the left-hander’s off stump. Azhar also fell for a duck when caught behind off Woakes. Babar Azam (30) struck several stylish boundaries before he played on to Liam Plunkett. Pakistan were now 66 for four. But Ahmed, as he’d often done during the preceding 2-2 drawn Test series, frustrated England with a mixture of orthodox and improvised shots. Shoaib Malik (28) struck a straight six against off-spinner Moeen Ali in a fifth-wicket partnership of 59 before Wood’s return saw him caught behind.
Ahmed, whose lone previous ODI hundred was against Ireland at last year’s World Cup, completed a 124-ball century when he legglanced Plunkett for his sixth four. He then successfully reviewed Plunkett’s lbw appeal before slog-sweeping Ali to Hales in the deep. Wasim struck Plunkett for three boundaries in as many balls-an uppercut six followed by a straight drive and a cover drive-to go to a 57- ball fifty. England’s fielding was shoddy at times but Plunkett held a brilliant diving one-handed catch at extra-cover to dismiss Wahab Riaz before No 11 Amir, who took Pakistan to 250 with a boundary, was run out. The series continues with a day/night match at Nottingham’s Trent Bridge on Tuesday.
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DOHA: Qatar’s government will levy a new airport tax on passengers from Tuesday as the country seeks new revenue streams amid falling oil prices. Every passenger leaving Qatar from Doha’s Hamad International Airport, including transit passengers, will be charged 35 riyals ($9.61) for using airport facilities, according to a statement by the airport.
The charge will apply to tickets issued after Aug 30 and for any travel starting on Dec 1 onwards and would be used to “further increase the airport’s capacity and invest in new infrastructure”, the statement said. Children under two years old without a seat will be exempted.
Airport fees, while common elsewhere in the world, have until recently been avoided by Gulf states as they seek to gain a competitive advantage for business and become regional hubs. Some 1.33 million passengers travelled through Hamad International Airport in June. Airports in the United Arab Emirates announced similar taxes earlier this year. Interest rates are rising in the Gulf as low oil prices pressure governments’ finances, so Qatar has been looking at ways other than borrowing to fund its projects, including raising local gasoline prices.
Qatar has said it expects to post a deficit of 46.5 billion riyals ($12.8 billion) in 2016, its first in 15 years, and to run a deficit for at least three years as low natural gas and oil prices weigh on its revenues as it prepares to host the soccer World Cup in 2022. – Agencies
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KUWAIT: A comprehensive survey of Kuwait Bay yesterday has found minimal fish deaths, the Environment Public Authority (EPA) announced, adding that there have been sporadic cases of fish washed up on shore.
The survey, which encompassed the entire Kuwait Bay area and was conducted in conjunction with the Public Authority of Agriculture Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAAFR), came about after reports of mass fish deaths, EPA Director General Sheikh Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al- Houmoud Al-Sabah said in a statement to the press.
Moreover, he added that the survey will continue in order to get a clearer picture on conditions in the bay area. Meanwhile, Director General of PAAAFR Tawfik Al-Haddad noted that the issue of fish deaths will be thoroughly examined. —KUNA
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LAS VEGAS: Russ Wheeler bears the financial scars of Nevada’s lost decade, and he hopes Donald Trump can heal them. He worked for a Las Vegas roofing company when the real estate bust crushed the state’s economy. He took two pay cuts before getting laid off. He had to commute into the California desert to find work after that. Wheeler considers himself one of the lucky ones. He was able to build up enough savings to retire, but even now his wife had her teaching hours reduced at a community college, dramatically reducing their household’s income.
“It’ll be better with Trump because he’ll bring the jobs back,” Wheeler, 66, said as he stopped by a Republican Party office to scoop up some “Make America Great Again” yard signs and bumper stickers. “Everybody I know is a Trump supporter. He resonates well in Nevada.” Nevada is the most diverse battleground state. On paper, it should be secure for Democrats. But there are enough people like Wheeler, still rattled by the recession and frustrated about other things, to make it one of Trump’s best swing states.
Democrats and Republicans agree that the state’s competitiveness is not just a quirk of public polling, which has a spotty track record in Nevada, but is reflected in private surveys, the tightness of Nevada’s races for the US Senate and House, and the observations of seasoned political operatives. “Nevada’s a picture of where the country’s at,” said Yvanna Cancela, political director of the Culinary Union, which represents nearly 60,000, mostly immigrant workers in casinos and hotels on the Strip. “It’s increasingly diverse but the ideas of nationalism, open borders are very much at play here.”
Recovering economy
The economy has recovered since the recession. The unemployment rate is down to 6.5 percent from 13.7 percent in 2010. While home prices have doubled since 2012, they are well below their 2007 peak, and many Las Vegas residents live in subdivisions dotted with still-unoccupied houses. Nevada also has one of the lowest rates of college education in the country, with only 23 percent of its population having graduated college, giving Trump a reservoir of non-college graduates that traditionally form his base. And the state’s anti-establishment streak and rebellious culture may prove a good fit for the brash New York developer and reality show star. “In Nevada, we have this mindset of it’s us versus the world,” said Charles Munoz, Trump’s state director. “It’s the perfect storm of policy and messaging.”
The stakes in Nevada go beyond the state’s six electoral votes in the presidential election. The race for retiring Democratic Sen. Harry Reid’s seat pits his hand-picked successor, former state Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, against US Rep Joe Heck. Two of the state’s four US. House seats are also in play. The state has become a presidential bellwether, voting for the winning candidate in every election since 1980. But its partisan divides have hardened as an influx of immigrants has helped fuel Las Vegas’ boom and pull political power from the more rural and conservative northern part of the state. “When I first moved here in 1974, you could barely tell the Republicans and the Democrats apart,” said Donna West, 59, who was working a phone bank for Clinton one recent night. “Now there are huge differences.”
Plenty of advantages
Those differences provide Clinton with plenty of advantages in the state. Democrats have a formidable Nevada ground game, with 70,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans to date. It’s a gap similar to that in 2012, when President Barack Obama won the state by 6 percentage points. Clinton has targeted the state for more than a year, announcing her immigration policy there in 2015 to appeal to Nevada’s growing numbers of Latinos and Asian-Americans. The state is 51 percent white, though whites comprised two-thirds of the 2012 electorate, according to census data.
“We know that we have the votes, we just have to turn them out,” said Clinton state director Jorge Neri, who has a view of Trump’s Las Vegas hotel from his office in the Clinton campaign’s headquarters. That hotel, rising just off the Strip and surrounded by a sea of stucco, Asian markets and adult video stores, has been engaged in a battle with the Culinary Union, which organized more than 500 of its workers. The hotel refused to recognize the union until the National Labor Relations Board forced it to do so in April. Now the union complains the hotel won’t negotiate a contract and has sent housekeepers and bartenders there to picket Trump rallies nationwide.
Democrats think the union battle can convince Nevadans that Trump’s populism is phony and he actually hurts workers. “For some people in the country it may seem like a distant thing, but this is in our backyard,” Neri said. The Trump campaign sees the hotel as a net positive. “Trump has invested in this state while Hillary Clinton hasn’t,” Munoz said. On Friday, Trump met at the hotel with about two dozen Latino supporters, Republican leaders and campaign staffers, and asserted: “People don’t know how well we’re doing with the Hispanics, the Latinos. We’re doing really well.” – AP
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ADEN: An Islamic State group militant rammed his explosives-laden car into an army recruiting center in Aden yesterday, killing 71 people in the deadliest jihadist attack on the Yemeni city in over a year. The army, supported by a Saudi-led coalition, is training young recruits to join its nationwide war against Houthi rebels and their allies, as well as other militants. Aden is the temporary base of Yemen’s internationally recognized government, which was forced into exile after Iran-backed insurgents seized Sanaa and other parts of the war-torn country.
Security officials told AFP the attacker drove the car bomb into a gathering of recruits at a school in the north of the port city. The recruits were among 5,000 newly enrolled soldiers being trained to fight the Houthi rebels in the north along the border with Saudi Arabia, military sources said. Although the complex was locked as recruits registered inside, the attacker drove in when the gate was opened for a delivery vehicle, officials said.
Witnesses said some recruits were buried when a roof collapsed after the blast which left a gaping hole on the building’s facade. Debris was scattered around the complex and nearby buildings were damaged. The assault killed at least 71 people and wounded 98, medical sources told AFP. They could not immediately verify whether all those who died were army recruits. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Twitter that its hospital in Aden “received 45 dead and at least 60 wounded” following the explosion.
Aden has experienced a wave of bombings and shootings targeting officials and security forces. Attacks in the city are often claimed by jihadists from either Al-Qaeda or IS, which have both taken advantage of the chaos in Yemen to make gains in the south and southeast. IS claimed yesterday’s bombing on its official propaganda outlet, Amaq. Earlier this month, a suicide bomber drove his vehicle into a large group of army reinforcements sent from Aden to fight jihadists in neighboring Lahj, killing five soldiers, military officials said. No group has claimed that attack.
But on July 20, four policemen were killed in a bombing attack in Aden that was claimed by IS. And in May, twin suicide bombings in Aden claimed by IS killed at least 41 people. Yemeni authorities have trained hundreds of soldiers in the city over the past two months as part of operations to retake neighbouring southern provinces from jihadists. Earlier this month, government forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition entered Abyan’s provincial capital of Zinjibar.
Troops retook other towns across Abyan but have been met by fierce resistance in the key Al-Qaeda stronghold of Al-Mahfid, security sources said. The militants still have a presence in areas surrounding the recaptured towns and control large parts of neighboring Shabwa province, the sources say. The Arab coalition battling the rebels and their allies in Yemen has also been providing troops with air cover throughout their war against the jihadists.
The United States has carried out numerous drone strikes against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) operatives in Yemen. The Saudi-led coalition intervened in Yemen in March last year and have helped government forces push the rebels out of Aden and four other southern provinces since July 2015. The war in Yemen has also impacted security in Saudi Arabia, where shelling from the kingdom’s impoverished neighbor killed three Saudi children and wounded nine other people on Sunday. Cross-border attacks from Yemen have intensified since the suspension in early August of UN-brokered peace talks between the rebels and the Saudi-backed government.
A plane chartered by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) landed at Sanaa airport yesterday, carrying insulin for thousands of people suffering from diabetes. “Yemen’s health sector is in a terrible state,” said the head of the ICRC in Yemen, Alexandre Faite. “Less than 30 percent of the required medicines and medical supplies have entered Yemen in 2015,” he added. – AFP
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WASHINGTON: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump linked illegal immigration and employment Saturday, pledging to start deporting offenders as soon as he is sworn in should he become the White House’s next occupant. Trump all the while courted the black vote, claiming that the shooting of basketball star Dwyane Wade’s cousin will make African Americans support him, but the move instead triggered a firestorm of criticism.
“On Day One, I am going to begin swiftly removing criminal illegal immigrants from this country – including removing the hundreds of thousands of criminal illegal immigrants that have been released into US communities under the Obama-Clinton administration,” Trump told supporters in Des Moines, Iowa. Trump’s Democratic rival Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state during President Barack Obama’s first term in office. The next president will be sworn in on January 20.
“I am going to build a great border wall, institute nationwide e-verify, stop illegal immigrants from accessing welfare and entitlements and develop an exit-entry tracking system to ensure those who overstay their visas are quickly removed,” Trump warned. The billionaire real estate magnate and former reality TV host-in a white baseball cap-said that “If we don’t enforce visa expiration dates, then we have an open border. It’s as simple as that.” “A vote for Trump is a vote to have a nation of laws, a vote for Clinton is a vote for open borders,” he stressed. Details of Trump’s immigration policies remain scant. He rallied much of his primary support with a controversial hardline tone against illegal immigrants and his plan to build a wall on the Mexican border. Some of his advisors are now reportedly urging him to tone down his signature policy priority.
Chasing the black vote
Trump also made appeals to black voters, promising to help African Americans find jobs. “Every time an African American citizen, or any citizen, loses their job to an illegal immigrant, the rights of that American citizen have been totally violated,” he argued. Hours before, Trump had tweeted: “Dwayne Wade’s cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago,” initially misspelling the basketball player’s first name before correcting it later. “Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!”
He was referring to the shooting death on Friday of Nykea Aldridge during an exchange of gunfire between two men as she pushed a baby stroller in Chicago. Trump’s comments unleashed a torrent of criticism spearheaded by actor Don Cheadle, who has starred in such films as “Hotel Rwanda” (2004), denouncing the bombastic billionaire for trying to score political points on the back of a murder.
“He doesn’t give a fkk. More red meat to his alt-right troglodytes,” Cheadle wrote on Twitter, referring to an ultra-conservative movement largely seen as white supremacist and anti-Semitic.”You don’t get to cherry pick. All the architects on left and right have failed that city. But Drumpf ain’t the ansr.” Cheadle lambasted the 2016 presidential election for being “like a Shakespearean farce except it could end in a mushroom cloud.” Several hours after firing off his first tweet on Wade, Trump offered a more somber and contrite message: “My condolences to Dwyane Wade and his family, on the loss of Nykea Aldridge. They are in my thoughts and prayers.” -AFP
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DHAKA: Bangladesh’s prime minister said the nation was “free of another curse” yesterday after police stormed a militant hideout, shooting dead the suspected mastermind of an horrific attack on a cafe that killed 22 hostages. The bodies of three Islamist extremists were retrieved after police staged an hour-long gun battle with militants in Narayanganj, a city 25 kilometers south of Dhaka, officers said. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina praised police and intelligence agencies for the operation which killed Tamim Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi- Canadian believed to have planned the attack. “The main mastermind of the Holey Artisan (attack) has been eliminated,” Hasina told reporters at her office, referring to the Gulshan cafe incident. “The nation has become free of another curse,” Hasina said, adding that the “elimination of the extremists” would bolster “people’s confidence”.
The police raid came two days before US Secretary of State John Kerry is set to arrive in Bangladesh, the highest-ranked Western official to visit the South Asian nation since the attack. Officials said security issues, including Dhaka-Washington DC anti-terror cooperation, will feature during Kerry’s talks with his Bangladeshi counterpart on Monday. Thirtyyear- old Chowdhury, who returned from Canada in 2013, had earlier been named by police as the suspected mastermind of the attack on the cafe in Gulshan, an upscale Dhaka neighborhood.
“The operation went on for an hour. We can see three dead bodies. They did not surrender. They threw four to five grenades at police and fired from AK 22 rifles,” Bangladesh national police chief AKM Shahidul Hoque told reporters yesterday. “Three extremists were killed. Among them, one of the dead persons looked exactly like the photo of Tamim Chowdhury that we have,” he said.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the July 1 attack, releasing photos from inside the cafe during the siege and of the five men who carried out the deadly assault and were shot dead at its finale. But police and the Bangladesh government rejected the IS claim, saying a new faction of homegrown militant group Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) led by Chowdhury was behind the attack in which 20 hostages, including 18 foreigners, were killed along with two policemen.
Police blame the JMB for the deaths of more than 80 foreigners and members of religious minorities over the last three years. “Tamim Chowdhury’s chapter is closed here,” Bangladesh home minister Asaduzzaman Khan told reporters after visiting the site of the raid yesterday. He said other extremists were “very few” in number and face imminent arrest.
A series of raids on suspected militant hideouts carried out with the Rapid Action Battalion elite security force have killed at least 24 extremists since the cafe attack. Police on August 2 announced a two million taka ($25,000) reward for information leading to the arrest of Chowdhury, who disappeared after the attack. Police say Chowdhury has led and financed efforts to radicalize young Muslims since returning from Canada three years ago. His role in fostering extremism was revealed during the interrogation of Rakibul Hasan, 25, who was arrested in a raid on a militant hideout in July in which nine extremists were killed in Dhaka. A police report into that raid said Chowdhury and others gave Hasan and other militants “money, explosives and weapons” and “trained and advised” them. Bangladesh has been reeling from a deadly wave of attacks in the last three years, including on foreigners, rights activists and members of the country’s religious minorities.
In June more than 11,000 people were arrested in a bid to quash a spate of brutal murders of secular writers, gay rights activists and religious minorities. Both IS and a branch of Al-Qaeda have claimed responsibility for many of the attacks. Bangladeshi authorities have rejected the claim, saying international jihadist networks have no presence in the world’s third-largest Muslim-majority nation. Critics say Prime Minister Hasina’s administration is in denial about the nature of the threat posed by Islamist extremists and accuse her of trying to exploit the attacks to demonize her domestic opponents. — AFP
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KUWAIT: Landmark Group, the region’s leading retail and hospitality conglomerate, yesterday announced a major new agreement with Reem Mall, Abu Dhabi’s latest retail and leisure destination, which will see 23 new stores opening in the UAE capital in 2018.
As part of the agreement, the two million square feet mall, located on Reem Island, will host some of Landmark Group’s most popular concepts, including Centrepoint, Home Centre, Max, Iconic, Sports One and Shoexpress. The Groups’ popular franchise brands such as New Look, Reiss, Adidas Kids, Ecco, Koton, Yours London, Lipsy, Steve Madden, Carpisa, Nose, Pablosky, Aerosoles, Kurt Geiger, Stride Rite, Puket, Blocco 31, Kazar and Loriblu will add further to the mall’s retail offering.
As a key tenant, Landmark Group will occupy a total retail area close to 200,000 square feet within Reem Mall, spread throughout the iconic project.
“Reem Mall is set to transform the retail landscape in Abu Dhabi, and this significant new agreement with Landmark Group brings some of the world’s most popular brands to one convenient location,” said Shane Eldstrom, Chief Operating Officer for Reem Mall.
He continued, “Landmark Group shares our passion and commitment to the highest quality standards in retail and customer care, which makes them the perfect partner to help bring Abu Dhabi’s most anticipated mall to life. We look forward to continuing our successful collaboration into 2017 and beyond.”
Manu Jeswani, Director, Landmark Group, said: “Abu Dhabi’s impressive mall development offers great potential for retail growth. Its vibrant shopping, arts and entertainment culture is a great attraction for both residents and tourists, and as the offering grows, it increases opportunity for the retail industry. Landmark Group is strategically expanding its presence in Abu Dhabi and our partnership with Reem Mall will enable us to bring our offering even closer to our customers. We look forward to working with the mall team on the launch of this great new project”.
Located within one of Abu Dhabi’s most vibrant communities, Reem Mall will bring a new experience in retail, leisure and entertainment. It will house 450 stores including 85 food and beverage outlets as well as popular edutainment and entertainment anchors.
Reem Mall, developed by NREC and UPAC began construction in 2015 and is expected to open in 2018. In addition to leading international and regional retail and restaurant brands, the mall will also house a wide range of entertainment options including the world’s largest indoor snow-play park.
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Indonesian priest injured in church ‘terror’ attack
MEDAN: A knife-wielding man stabbed a Catholic priest and tried to set off an explosive device at a church in Indonesia yesterday, police said, the latest attack on religious minorities in the mainly Muslim country. Priest Albert Pandiangan was holding a mass in the city of Medan on the western island of Sumatra when a young man approached him and stabbed him in his left arm, said local chief detective Nur Fallah. The attacker was carrying a homemade explosive device, said Fallah.
“Somebody tried to kill the priest by pretending to attend the church service and at that time tried to explode something, like a firecracker, but the firecracker didn’t explode, it only fumed,” Fallah told reporters. The priest suffered slight injuries and has been taken to hospital for treatment. A picture of the attacker’s ID card circulating online said he was Muslim. In recent years there have been a number of attacks on religious minorities and others in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country.
A suicide attack in the Indonesian capital in January killed four attackers and four civilians, including a Westerner, and injured 19. In July a suicide bomber linked to the Islamic State group blew himself up outside a police station in Central Java. Churchgoers yesterday quickly caught the attacker and called the police. An eyewitness, Markus Harianto Manullan, said the assailant wore a jacket and carried a bag. “He sat in the same row as I did… I saw him fiddling with something in his jacket, and then I heard a small explosion and he immediately ran to the podium,” Manullan said. Police are still investigating the man’s motive. – AFP
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KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received Director General of the Public Authority for Sports (PAS) Sheikh Ahmad Mansour Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah at Bayan Palace yesterday. His Highness the Amir also received Chairman of the interim committee tasked with running Kuwait National Olympic Committee (NOC) Sheikh Fahad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah, on the occasion of forming the NOC new board.
Meanwhile, His Highness the Amir hosted the chairman of the interim committee charged with managing Kuwait Football Association (KFA), Fawaz Al-Hasawi, and association members, on the occasion of forming the KFA new board.
His Highness the Amir encouraged the officials to exert more efforts to develop the sport and youth sector in Kuwait, and to bring those who violate the law to justice. Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad instructed them to dedicate greater efforts for aiding the young athletes and put all available resources at disposal of realizing ‘whatever they aspire to.’
The three meetings were attended by His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah. Also attending was the Amiri Diwan Advisor Khaled Boudai.
Meanwhile, His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah called for tackling the domestic sports sector and rebuilding the State international relations in line with ‘interests of the homeland and citizens’ aspirations.’
His Highness the Premier emphasized necessity to remedy the national sports sector during his reception of Sheikh Ahmad Mansour Al-Sabah, Sheikh Fahad Jaber Al-Sabah and Fawaz Al-Hasawi. Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah attended the meetings as well.
Amir’s directives
In the meantime, the sports officials and figures have shared views on the significance of His Highness the Amir’s directives for supporting the Kuwaiti youth and promoting sports. They lauded His Highness the Amir’s backing to the efforts seeking to overcome the challenges facing the Kuwaiti sports at present.
His Highness the Amir’s recommendations to advance the Kuwaiti sports will function as a “cresset for our work over the coming period,” Sheikh Fahad Al-Sabah said. He added that the efforts of the sincere Kuwaitis will enable the committee to forward the Kuwaiti sports. The Kuwaiti flag will again flutter on the world’s sports arenas, he stressed.
The Public Authority for Sports (PAS) has got a multitude of plans, views and programs likely to contribute to promoting the Kuwaiti sports, PAS Deputy Chairman Sueliamn Al-Adsani said. The programs are to be implemented for the good of the Kuwaiti youth, he added. Kuwaitis, in all sports bodies, authorities and federations, will do their utmost to advance sports and back youth for the good of the nation, he added.
Furthermore, Fawaz Al-Hasawi voiced gratitude that His Highness the Amir received the sport officials. He vowed that all of them would work hard so that the Kuwait sports can restore its good old days, especially football.
Deputy KOC chairman Eng Duaij Al-Otaibi said that the meeting with His Highness the Amir offered a good opportunity to listen to his directives and recommendations to promote sports. Otaibi noted that all the sports official are open to athletes and youth, willing to offer proposals and ideas for the good of the sports scene.
Deputy head of the KFA interim committee Assad Haji Taqui said that the meeting with His Highness the Amir earlier Monday was a great honor. Taqui highlighted His Highness the Amir’s directives, and support to the sports officials to serve the Kuwaiti people. – KUNA
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KUWAIT: As part of its preparations for the hajj season, Kuwait Airways Corporation (KAC) announced increasing the number of flights to Saudi Arabia during a press conference held yesterday at the KAC headquarters. The first flight for pilgrims departs today. KAC Regional Director Nasser Khoursheed said the hajj schedule that includes the additional flights will end on Sept 15, 2016. “This year there are 2,500 pilgrims from Kuwait in addition to 3,000 pilgrims from abroad flying onboard Kuwait Airways. This is the first time we have pilgrims from Germany. KAC has set attractive prices for tickets for the hajj season,” he noted during the conference.
Bader Al-Shayea, director of the passports department, advised passengers to check the validity of their passports and civil IDs. “After the GCC meeting, it was recommended to travel with the passport instead of the civil ID, but it’s not obligatory. We also advise passengers to make sure they don’t have a travel ban before coming to the airport. Also, some people rush to the airport without noticing they have taken the passport of another family member,” he said.
Hajj permit
Roumi Al-Roumi, head of the hajj and umrah committee at the Ministry of Awqaf, highlighted the fact that no pilgrim is allowed to leave without a hajj permit. “Expats should have a hajj visa and Kuwaitis should have the hajj permit with them. Otherwise, the pilgrim will be forced to return on the same flight back. I would also like to remind passengers to come on time, take care of their travel documents and cooperate with the organizers of the hajj campaigns,” he pointed out.
Sulaiman Al-Humaidan, representative of the director general of airport security and head of building security, said new gates were set up especially for this season. “Although there will be more gates open, passengers should still come early to the airport as it’s the high season. We are present at the airport to serve pilgrims 24/7,” he noted.
Mohammed Al-Shatti, from the Civil Aviation Department, said special brochures were printed and will be distributed to pilgrims at the airport that include instructions and advice for pilgrims. He also advised people to limit the number of friends and families seeing off or welcoming pilgrims to avoid overcrowding. Maziad Al-Mutairi, director of the airport, stressed that this year pilgrims will collect their luggage at the airport instead of the cargo area, which was the case in previous years.
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PARIS: France’s highest administrative court yesterday suspended a controversial ban on the burkini by a French Riviera town after it was challenged by rights groups. In a judgement expected to set a precedent, the State Council ruled that local authorities could only restrict individual liberties if wearing the Islamic swimsuit was a “proven risk” to public order.
The judges said there was no such risk in the case before the court concerning Villeneuve-Loubet, one of around 30 towns to have introduced the bans.
The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) hailed the ruling as a “victory for common sense”. Police have fined Muslim women for wearing burkinis on beaches in several towns, including in the popular tourist resorts of Nice and Cannes, sparking controversy in France and abroad. The burkini bans have triggered a fierce debate about women’s rights and the French state’s strictly-guarded secularism.
‘Line in the sand’
Amnesty International welcomed the ruling. “By overturning a discriminatory ban that is fuelled by and is fuelling prejudice and intolerance, today’s decision has drawn an important line in the sand,” Amnesty’s Europe director John Dalhuisen said. “French authorities must now drop the pretense that these measures do anything to protect the rights of women,” he said.
The CFCM’s secretary general Abdallah Zekri said: “This victory for common sense will help to take the tension out of a situation which has become very tense for our Muslim compatriots, especially women.” The State Council heard arguments from the Human Rights League and an anti-Islamophobia group. A court in Nice had upheld the Villeneuve- Loubet ban this week.
President Francois Hollande said Thursday that life in France “supposes that everyone sticks to the rules and that there is neither provocation nor stigmatization”. Anger over the issue was further inflamed this week when photographs in the British media showed police surrounding a woman in a headscarf on a beach in Nice as she removed a long-sleeved top.
The office of Nice’s mayor denied that the woman had been forced to remove clothing, telling AFP she was showing police the swimsuit she was wearing under her top, over a pair of leggings, when the picture was taken. Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Thursday condemned any “stigmatization” of Muslims, but maintained that the burkini was “a political sign of religious proselytizing”. — AFP
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Saudi Arabia is busy these days with preparations to host millions of Muslims from across the globe to perform the hajj. It is clear that Saudi Arabia is making a special effort this year to avoid what could disturb or harm the safety and security of millions of pilgrims. When we speak about the pilgrimage this year, we begin by remembering the sad events of the hajj last year, and the region that is confronting a critical security situation.
While Saudi Arabia is facing a devastating conflict in Yemen, Syria and clear tensions with Iran, preparations for hosting Muslims for hajj have been completed. The situation is not easy or smooth, as Saudi Arabia will receive millions of pilgrims from different places arriving by different means, including those who are already living in the country and want to perform hajj.
It is natural that the security of the pilgrimage is paramount this year. Most official Saudi statements have confirmed that the pilgrimage this year has been arranged as an integrated event in order to see a peaceful pilgrimage and leave no room for any riots or risks. The pilgrimage season this year commenced with the development and modernization of electronic security plans and programs.
The hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam – it starts with going to Makkah to perform specific rites defined by Islam in specified places and times. It ends with Eid al-Adha after the completion of the stand on Mount Arafat. This year, Eid falls on Sept 11. Hajj is obligatory on every Muslim, but it has some requirements. The person must be able to bear the hajj expenses and the physical effort too, because the hajj is systematic and millions of people carry out the same rites at the same place and time. This is not easy for sick people or older people.
Another point here is that organizing the hajj is a sensitive and complicated issue. For example, the hajj is a great opportunity for Muslims living in Western countries because the journey allows them to interact with people of different countries and cultures, and feel the spirituality of the place. Makkah is the birthplace of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and the site of the advent of Islam, and non-Muslims are not allowed to enter it. The Saudi interior ministry has also warned pilgrims who do not hold a valid permit. Pilgrims must be sure that they deal with a certified agency to avoid being exposed to penalties and trouble with official authorities.
This year, 1,167 surveillance cameras have been set up in all areas of the Grand Mosque in order to monitor the situation and provide maximum comfort and security to visitors of the Grand Mosque. One tip for pilgrims is to keep the contact number of their agency or relatives with their personal items and bags to identity them easily in case of any crisis or sudden death or loss. Despite the prevalence of security cameras, one should not take his safety and security lightly and be with his group during the hajj rites and avoid violation of regulations and laws.
All Saudi statements so far are conveying one key message – that no one will be allowed to threaten the security and safety of pilgrims for political purposes, stir up sedition or whatever else that disturbs the hajj. This means that the security of the pilgrimage is a red line that does not accept any tampering.
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KARKAMIS, Turkey: Rebels supported by Turkey fought Kurdish-backed forces in north Syria yesterday, as Ankara ratcheted up its cross-border offensive by saying it had launched air strikes on Kurdish forces and Islamic State. Turkey’s government, which is fighting a Kurdish insurgency at home, has said the Syrian campaign launched this week is as much about targeting Islamic State as it is about preventing Kurdish forces filling the vacuum left when Islamists withdraw.
Turkish security sources said two F-16 jets bombed a site controlled by the Kurdish YPG militia, which is part of the broader US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) coalition. The sources also said the jets hit six Islamic State targets. Ankara’s opponents said Turkish forces had targeted YPG-allied forces but that no Kurdish forces were involved. On the ground, Turkish-backed Syrian rebels fought forces aligned to the SDF near the frontier town of Jarablus. Forces opposed to Ankara said Turkish tanks were deployed, a charge denied by Turkey’s rebel allies.
Yesterday’s use of warplanes against what Turkey said was a Kurdish YPG militia target highlights its determination to prevent any Kurdish territorial expansion in north Syria. Any action against Kurdish forces in Syria puts Turkey at odds with its NATO ally the United States, which backs the SDF and YPG, seeing them as the most reliable and effective ally in the fight against Islamic State in Syria. It adds complexity to the Syrian conflict that erupted five years ago with an uprising against Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and has since drawn in regional states and world poweThe Jarablus Military Council, part of the SDF, had said earlier yesterday that Turkish planes hit the village of Al- Amarna south of Jarablus, causing civilian casualties.
It called the action “a dangerous escalation”. The Kurdish-led administration that controls parts of northern Syria said Turkish tanks advanced on Al-Amarna and clashed with forces of the Jarablus Military Council. But the Kurdish administration said no Kurdish forces were involved. However, the leader of one Turkey-backed rebel group gave a rival account. He told Reuters the rebels battled the Kurdish YPG around al-Amarna and denied any Turkish tanks took part.
Turkish security forces simply said Turkish-backed forces had extended their control to five villages beyond Jarablus. A video released by Turkey’s military showed the Turkish Red Crescent distributing food and aid to people in Jarablus, with the help of Turkish troops. It also showed what appeared to be Turkish-backed rebels flicking v-for-victory signs in the town. The newly formed Jarablus Military Council has said it was made up of people from the area with the aim of capturing the town and the surrounding region from Islamic State militants.
However, the Turkish-backed rebels seized Jarablus first. Meanwhile, at least 15 civilians were killed in a barrel bomb attack on a rebel-held district of Aleppo yesterday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. The Britain-based group said regime aircraft had dropped two explosive-packed barrel bombs several minutes apart on the Maadi district of eastern Aleppo.
The strikes hit “near a tent where people were receiving condolences for those killed this week in the neighboring district of Bab al-Nayrab,” Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said. “There was a first barrel bomb and when people gathered and the ambulances arrived, a second barrel struck and there were more deaths,” an AFP reporter in the rebel-held part of the city said. “One ambulance was completely destroyed,” he added, citing the local civil defense unit. The Observatory said dozens more were injured in the two strikes and the death toll was expected to rise.
Yesterday’s deadly strikes come after 15 people, among them 11 children, were killed in a barrel bomb attack on Bab al-Nayrab on Thursday. The local Shabha Press news agency said 23 people were killed in yesterday’s attack, and published photos showing several of the dead, including a man who appeared to have been riding a motorbike at the time of the strike. Most of his blood-soaked body lay on one side of the overturned bike, but his severed leg lay on the other side. Syria’s regime has been accused of regularly using barrel bombs – crude, explosive devices – on rebel-held areas that are home to civilians. — Agencies
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KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry’s relations and security information department warned citizens and expats against falling victim to ads by fake domestic help offices, adding they should only deal with licensed ones and not through social media.
It said that the department of residency detectives noticed that many citizen and expats submitted complaints against bogus domestic help offices.
The fraudsters take the maids, who are on article 20 visas, to homes in order to convince owners of the home delivery service, though all those offices are bogus and registered and do not have licenses. After they deliver the maid and get the fees, the turn off their mobiles and tell the maid to escape again, in order for her services to be offered to another family in the same illegal way.
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KUWAIT: An Egyptian woman was beaten by her Nepalese maid with a broomstick that left her with various bruises. The woman sought her husband’s help to take her to hospital, then went to the police station and told them that she was attacked by her hysterical maid. Police are looking for the maid, who escaped.
Toddler died after jumping into pool
A one-year-old bedoon child trying to walk drowned in a pool after falling in it. When his family discovered what had happened, he was already dead. The boy’s body was sent to the coroner and a case was registered at Sulaibiya police station.
Jahra crackdown
A security campaign by Jahra police resulted in arresting 70 wanted individuals, besides issuing 108 traffic citations. Sixteen cars were impounded for not meeting safety standards. The detainees were referred to the proper authorities for further action.
Smuggling foiled
Abdaly customs officers foiled an attempt by two Iraqis to smuggle a firearm and 2,000 Captagon pills into the country. Both were arrested in two separate incidents. While officers were inspecting a bus coming from Iraq with Bahraini plates, they found 2,000 pills with a passenger, who was sent to DCGD. In the second case, they found a pistol in the suspect’s bag, so he was arrested and sent to criminal detectives.
Driver assaulted
A citizen sought the help of her two brothers to beat an Egyptian man in Hawally following a car accident. After the car accident, the woman called her brothers, who rushed to the accident scene, argued with the other driver and beat him up. A security source said traffic policemen handled the situation and took those involved to the police station for further legal action.
Thief identified
A thief, who is also an ex-convict, left his ID behind during his latest theft that targeted a car in Fahd Al-Ahmad. A citizen told police his car was broken into and KD 1,000 along with personal belongings were stolen, and that he found the ID of a citizen nearby. When police checked his information, they found he is an ex-convict in theft and drugs cases. Detectives took over the case and they are looking for him.
Search for harasser
A man harassed a woman in Fitnas, then slapped her and twisted her arm for admonishing him. The woman, a citizen, went to Fintas police station and told them she was harassed by a youth in a mall in front of other shoppers, so she admonished him and left. But he followed her to her car and slapped her, twisted her arm, and said: “You can’t speak like this to me.” The woman gave police the man’s license plate number and he was charged with inciting immorality and debauchery. Police are working on arresting him.
Drug possession
A citizen fell asleep inside his car in front of a café in Sulaibiya. Policemen who woke him up found 10 envelopes of shabu, and he was detained at the Drug Control General Department (DCGD). Patrols suspect a car at dawn, then noticed a man sleeping in it. When they woke him up, they found him in an abnormal condition.
Domestic violence
A dispute between a citizen and his mother turned ugly when the son insulted his mother, beat her, then destroyed the house furniture in Jahra. The elderly woman went to Jahra police station and told them what happened. Detectives took over the case and are looking for the man. – Al-Rai
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KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry has reactivated a law under which expatriates who leave Kuwait after working there as mandoubs (company representatives) or drivers are not allowed to return back to the country unless after two years from the exit date.
The decision comes after the ministry detected manipulation in which an employee would agree with his employer to be hired as a representative or driver in order to get an exception to obtain a driver’s license.
The employee would then leave the country and come back later for another job while retaining their licenses, the sources explained. — Al-Anbaa
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KUWAIT: The Farwaniya Municipality’s emergency team has removed 97 percent of encroachment crippling the fifth ring road expansion project, Kuwait Municipality said yesterday.
The removal came upon request from the Ministry of Public Works for the construction and maintenance of roads on the western part of the fifth ring road, said team leader Khaled Al- Radaan. The team will continue its work until removing all encroachment on state property, he added. — KUNA
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Addict risks everything in Duterte’s drug war – ‘It’s scary because I could be next’
MANILA: Pedicab driver Reyjin dives into a neighbor’s house for a quick meth fix, fearful of taking a bullet to the head in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs but unable to quit. More than 2,000 people have died violent deaths since Duterte took office two months ago and immediately implemented his scorched-earth plans to eradicate drugs in society, ordering police to shoot dead traffickers and urging ordinary citizens to kill addicts.
The bloodbath has seen unknown assailants kill more than half the victims, according to police statistics, raising fears that security forces and hired assassins are roaming through communities and shooting dead anyone suspected of being involved in drugs. Armed police constantly circle in Reyjin’s Manila slum community, but he continues to snort the fumes of the highly addictive methamphetamine known as “shabu” that Duterte has warned is destroying the lives of millions of poor Filipinos. “It’s scary because I could be next,” said the gaunt, gap-toothed 28-year-old, speaking to AFP on the condition his identity not be revealed for security reasons.
The father-of-three said two masked motorcycle gunmen riding in tandem on a motorcycle had shot dead a woman who sold small amounts of drugs to him and other residents. “She was sitting in the alley when she took two bullets to the head,” he said. Such riding-in-tandem murders are one of the most common forms of killings by the shadowy assassins.
‘Cardboard justice’
Often a piece of cardboard, with “drug peddler” or “drug addict” written on it, is placed on the corpse. This has led to the war on crime becoming known as “cardboard justice”. Meanwhile, police have reported killing 756 people they have branded drug suspects. National police chief Ronald dela Rosa has repeatedly defended his officers, insisting they only kill when their own lives are in danger. However two policemen have been charged with murder over the jailhouse deaths of a father and son, who autopsies showed to have been beaten so badly before being shot that their limbs were broken.
The United Nations, the US government and human rights groups have expressed alarm at the bloodshed, with some critics warning the Philippines is in the midst of a reign of terror as authorities act with no regard for the law. Duterte and Dela Rosa have repeatedly insisted they are acting within the boundaries of the law, while accusing their critics of siding with the drug traffickers and ignoring the devastating consequences of what they describe as a national shabu crisis. They say most of the unexplained deaths are being carried out by drug syndicates waging war on each other.
Yet on the day he was sworn into office, Duterte gave a speech to a crowd in a Manila slum in which he called on them to kill drug addicts in their own community. And in an address to a group of drug addicts who had surrendered to police last week, Dela Rosa called on them to kill their suppliers and burn down their homes. Dela Rosa later apologized for the comments, saying they were made because he was angry, but they nevertheless added to an atmosphere of a dramatic breakdown in the rule of law.
Resilient drug trade
In Reyjin’s Manila slum, the violence and security presence has slowed the drug trade and made shabu more expensive. But lots is still available, in what could be a worrying sign for Duterte who vowed during the election campaign that he could completely wipe out the trade within six months. “If you want to buy, you just go stand there on the street and somebody will approach you,” said Reyjin, who took his first hit of shabu when he was 13. “You hand over the money and he will tell you to wait and have somebody else deliver the drugs to you.”
Even the shabu “dens”, in which people rent out their huts for addicts to take a hit, are still operating, according to Reyjin. Reyjin said he earned about 400 pesos ($8.50) a day, taking passengers on short pedicab trips and occasionally doing odd jobs. He said he was spending about one quarter of his earnings on shabu. It used to be a 50-peso-a-day habit, but the price of shabu had doubled because of the drug war, according to Reyjin.
Neighbors told AFP the eldest of Reyjin’s three children, a grade-schooler, looked malnourished and often went to school hungry. The two other siblings looked dirty and were forced to wear hand-me-down clothes in their one-room house, they added. The neighbors said they also suspected him of stealing small items from their homes to fund his habit. Reyjin said he was aware of the toll his habit took on his family. But, even compounded by the threat of his children being orphaned in the drug war, he said he could not stop taking shabu. “Sometime I tell myself I have to stop,” he said. “But my body craves it.” – AFP
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KUWAIT: The Ministry of Education prepared lists containing the names of up to 400 expatriate teachers who can be released by the end of the upcoming school year, ministry insiders revealed. The step comes as part of the ministry’s efforts to replace expatriate teachers with Kuwaitis by 25 percent in some subjects, including computer, science and social studies, the sources said.
The expatriate teachers who will be released will likely be notified about their termination next October, and will be given an ultimatum until the end of the school year to give them enough time to finish their arrangements. — Al-Jarida
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Hasawi says KFA’s next phase is to develop local sports activity – NOC to improve sport locally, abroad: Interim Chair
KUWAIT: Kuwait Football Association (KFA) Chairman Fawaz Al-Hasawi said yesterday that the focus during the next phase will be on developing local activity and address all the flaws as a first step to work on lifting the suspension imposed on the Kuwaiti sports.
Hasawi announced in a statement that the first step is to cancel the reserve league that is currently in place and to adopt the ‘in and out’ system in the premier league as of the next season consisting of premier and first.
He continued, “We will work to strengthen the league and increase the level of its performance by increasing and diversifying bonuses for the sake of increasing competition between the clubs and contribute to raising the general technical level.”
“We will also work to implement privatization in the clubs which will be the first step to lift the suspension and develop sports image sought by all Kuwaiti athletes,” he added. Hasawi stressed the need to benefit from the privatization as desired and as is the case in various regional, continental and global countries in order to achieve the desired renaissance of the game and restore its glory in various forums.
He expressed confidence in the capabilities of all employees of the Association to achieve the first step in “our quest towards lifting the suspension imposed on the Kuwaiti sports and restore its past glories in all forums.”
The Public Authority for Sports (PAS) had earlier decided to dissolve the Kuwait Football Association and the Kuwaiti Olympic Committee, assigning two interim commissions-alluding the measure to financial irregularities.
Improving sports
Meanwhile, Sheikh Fahad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah, Chairman of an interim committee tasked with running Kuwait National Olympic Committee (NOC), said Saturday the committee sought primarily to see Kuwaiti flags hoisted in international competitions. Committee members will exert efforts to improve sport in Kuwait at local, regional and international levels, Sheikh Fahad said in a statement. He said their aim was to serve Kuwaiti youth “because they are the future of the country.”
Sheikh Fahad said the committee was keen creating suitable environment for the improvement of sport in Kuwait, thus reflecting interest of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah in youth.
Sheikh Fahad expressed gratitude for the political leadership, and Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Al-Sabah for assigning him to chair the NOC. Sheikh Salman, who Board Chairman of the Public Authority for Sport (PAS), announced three days ago the dissolution of NOC and appointed Sheikh Fahad to chair an interim committee for six months, and to represent Kuwait locally and abroad. – KUNA
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KUWAIT: Minister of Commerce and Industry Yousef Al-Ali affirmed yesterday that the introduction of new fuel prices from tomorrow will not “affect prices of basic commodities”. Any unjustified bid to raise prices “will be met with firm measures by ministry inspectors”, he said, warning wholesale and retail merchants and businessmen against hiking prices on the pretext that fuel costs have increased.
Ali was speaking during a visit to Siddeeq yesterday, adding there can be no increase in prices without the approval of the Ministry of Commerce. He said the government will apply law 10/79 with its penalties against price manipulators. “It is the citizens’ right to complain and inform the ministry if anyone raises prices. The complainant must prove the increase with a receipt. Then the ministry decide whether the seller had the right to raise the price or not,” he explained.
Ali said that the ministry has already issued 372 citations in August, of which only 11 were related to raising prices, while the rest were for offenses including not labeling the price of a product or its expiry date, pointing out that the ministry has taken legal procedures against such violations and those who committed them. “Till this moment, there have been no significant increases in (necessities’) prices, except in some cases,” he added, reaffirming violators have been referred to the commercial prosecution.
Ministry staff, including those entrusted with trade supervision and consumer protection, have been working diligently to counter any drastic hike in the prices of basic products. He urged citizens to call the hotline 135 to report any violations.
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DHAKA: Bangladesh police said yesterday they were hunting more extremist leaders after shooting dead the suspected mastermind of a deadly cafe attack, on the eve of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s first visit. Security forces stormed a militant hideout outside Dhaka on Saturday, killing three suspected Islamists including the Bangladesh-born Canadian accused of organizing last month’s attack that killed 22 people, mostly foreigners.
Authorities say that after returning from Canada in 2013, Tamim Chowdhury led a faction of the banned militant group Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), blamed for a series of recent attacks on religious minorities. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the July 1 seige of the upmarket Dhaka cafe in which gunmen held hostage mainly Western diners including one American, before killing them. But police say the homegrown JMB, which has pledged allegiance to the IS group, was behind the raid. They deny the presence of international jihadist groups. “We’re hopeful we can now capture and eliminate other extremists including Zia,” assistant inspector general of police, Mohammad Moniruzzaman, told AFP.
Major blow
Police suspect Zia, a former army major whose full name is Syed Ziaul Haque, heads another local extremist group called Ansar al Islam, blamed for the machete murders of a dozen secular writers and two gay activists. Kerry is set to arrive in Bangladesh on Monday on his first official visit to try to deepen cooperation on counter-terrorism and other issues. He will meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and hold talks with his counterpart Mahmood Ali “on a broad range of issues including democracy, development, security and human rights”, a senior State Department official said.
Kerry will then head to India to co-chair the regular US-India Strategic and Commercial Dialogue and hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Bangladesh police hailed Saturday’s raid as a major blow to extremists in the Muslim-majority country, which has been reeling from the recent killings. The cafe attack has prompted foreigners, including potential investors, to leave Bangladesh-sparking worries for its garment industry, the world’s second largest after China. A series of police raids on suspected militant hideouts have killed at least 24 extremists since the cafe attack.
Police have announced a reward of $25,000 for information leading to the arrest of Zia, who was sacked from the army in 2011 for an aborted coup bid against Hasina. Experts welcomed Saturday’s police raid but said the country, with its history of political instability, faces a long fight against Islamist extremism. Critics say Hasina’s administration has been in denial about the nature of the threat posed by extremists and accuse her of trying to exploit the attacks to demonize her domestic opponents. “Definitely Tamim’s death is a major setback for the terrorists, especially in the short term,” said Abdur Rob, professor of politics and security issues at the private North South University. “(But) The incentives for regrouping will remain unless we can fix our politics.” – AFP
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KUWAIT: A delegation of the Ministry of Interior, currently on a mission in Germany, received the first batch of electronic passports from the manufacturing company in the European nation on Thursday, a senior official of the ministry declared yesterday.
Major General Sheikh Mazen Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah, Assistant Undersecretary for Citizenship and Residency Affairs at the Ministry of Interior (MoI), said the delivery would reach Kuwait early next week. Others would be dispatched in stages in the coming months. Maj Gen Sheikh Mazen is in Germany, at present, along with a number of senior ministry officers for this particular task. — KUNA
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Turkey sends more tanks into Syria – Ceasefire efforts between Russia, US advance
KARKAMIS: Turkey yesterday sent more tanks into Syria to bolster a military offensive against jihadists and Kurdish fighters, as a diplomatic push for a new ceasefire in Syria gathered pace. An AFP photographer in the village of Karkamis on the Turkish side of the border saw six more tanks roll over the frontier as mop-up operations continued in a town wrested from the Islamic State group (IS). Sporadic explosions were heard from over the border as Turkish-backed rebels carried out de-mining work in the town of Jarabulus seized from IS on Wednesday.
The state-run Anadolu news agency confirmed that the rebels were working to destroy explosives left behind by IS militants, with 20 different sets destroyed on Friday alone. The deployment was the latest phase in Turkey’s military operation inside Syria-codenamed “Euphrates Shield”-to oust IS from the border region and also counter advances by a Kurdish militia opposed by Ankara. As Turkey stepped up its biggest operation in Syria since the start of the war, the US and Russia announced progress in talks on agreeing a new ceasefire. Meanwhile, the evacuation of Daraya, a town crushed by a four-year Syrian army siege, continued, with hundreds of fighters and their families arriving in rebel-held territory in the northwest.
‘Important steps’
In Geneva on Friday, US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov said they had cleared key obstacles in ceasefire talks but had yet to reach a final deal. “Today I can say that we achieved clarity on the path forward” for a revamped cessation of hostilities, Kerry said.
Lavrov concurred, saying that “very important steps” had been made on a deal to stop the violence. Russia, a staunch ally of Assad’s regime, has been backing government forces with air strikes on rebel-held areas. The US supports Syria’s main opposition alliance and some rebel factions. There had been hope that Friday’s talks might lead to a breakthrough on the battered northern city of Aleppo, where fighting between government and rebel forces has escalated in recent weeks, leaving hundreds dead. But neither side gave pledges on getting much-needed aid into the city. And Turkey’s offensive in Syria added yet another layer of complexity to the tangled web of powers jockeying for influence in the war-torn country.
Turkey’s leadership has made clear that its offensive is also aimed at holding back the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia, which has led the fight against IS in the area. Ankara says that the YPG has failed to stick to a promise made by its US allies that the militia would move back east across the Euphrates following the seizure of the town of Manbij from IS earlier this month. Turkey sees the YPG militia and its Democratic Union Party (PYD) political wing, which have links to Kurdish rebels in southeast Turkey, as “terror groups” bent on carving out an autonomous Kurdish region.
Over 50 tanks
Turkey has continued sending in tanks since Wednesday’s lighting operation to help rebels rout IS from Jarabulus. Helped by Turkish forces, the rebels retook the town, which had been in IS hands since 2013, without a fight. Hurriyet daily reported that Turkey had 50 tanks and 380 personnel on the ground in Syria after three days of operations. The Turkish troops are supporting an even larger force of hundreds of Syrian rebels.
On Thursday, Turkey shelled Syrian Kurds south of Jarabulus but there have been no reports of further activity against the group since then. Hurriyet said the Turkish forces had been given an order to “strike immediately” should the YPG be seen to make any move towards the liberated town. Elsewhere, rebel fighters leaving the town of Daraya near Damascus, which had held out against an army siege for four years, began arriving in the rebel-held city of Idlib.
At least five buses carrying fighters and their families arrived yesterday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Daraya was one of the first towns to rise up against President Bashar al-Assad in 2012. From a symbol of revolt it became a symbol of the fierce suffering caused by the war, with the army siege causing acute hunger. The rebels said they were forced to give up the town because of deteriorating humanitarian conditions, accusing Damascus of “starve or surrender” tactics. The around 8,000 civilians left in the town are also being evacuated. – AFP
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KUWAIT: A Bangladeshi man who arrived in Kuwait on a cleaner’s visa acted as a doctor in Rabiya. The man, identified as ‘Atwa’, became famous very quickly among his compatriots and others, including women who got pregnant out of wedlock. They used to go to him for abortion pills, and he had large quantities of stolen medicine from health centers and hospitals, along with other drugs from unknown sources. Atwa was thinking about moving somewhere else, but tips were received by Farwaniya police, who placed him under surveillance for five days, then his place was raided and he was caught red-handed practicing medicine without a license. A huge amount of medicine, ampules, hormones and expired medicines were found. Atwa was arrested and is awaiting legal action.
False alarm
“Please help, a Daeshi wants to blow up the mosque!” a citizen told police, who rushed to the scene and found that the so-called IS member was the mosque’s muezzin who was throwing trash in a container. A security source said a call was received by Interior Ministry operations from a citizen in Qairawan asking for help against a man who was “circling the mosque to plant a bomb”. The call was taken seriously, and police went to the mosque and asked the man to give himself up. The muezzin told police he was checking the surroundings of the mosque as he does every day at dawn.
Murder threat
“If I see you in the street, I will run you over,” a citizen told his ex-wife. She took his threats seriously and lodged a complaint. The citizen, in her 30s, told Bayan police that she received a call from her ex-husband that included insults and the threat to kill her. Police are working on the case.
Drunk man arrested
A citizen, who was drunk, moved from his hotel to an adjacent hotel through the beach and started flirting with women, which landed him at a Salmiya police station. The citizen, who booked a room in a seaside hotel, drank liquor, then decided to change his hotel in his own way. He then started harassing women, and one of them called the hotel’s management. The manager asked the harasser about his room number, but he was not able to speak properly and it was discovered he was not a guest. Police were called, who arrested the infiltrator and detained him for legal action.
Man detained for selling contrabands
A citizen brashly offered ‘sexual’ products on social media, so detectives arrested and charged him with selling pornographic material and inciting vice. A video clip showed a man promoting pornographic material for sale on social media, and he appeared promising a woman, who he claimed called him, to deliver what she ordered, and said he can provide her with what she needs. Detectives arrested the man in Hawally, and he confessed and handed over the pornographic material he was promoting.
Driver mugged
An Indian expat man surprised by two persons who blocked him in Fahaheel, beat him up and stole the car he was driving, which belongs to his sponsor. A citizen went to the police station accompanied by his driver and told them the Indian was driving to a cooperative when he was stopped by two persons, who beat him, took the car and escaped. Detectives are searching for the two.
Teen driver detained
A juvenile lost his challenge with traffic police when he said they cannot chase him after he was driving recklessly, as he was arrested and his vehicle impounded. The youth made his challenge on social media, so policemen accepted the challenge and went out looking for the vehicle (a pick-up truck), that appeared in the clip without license plates. Police patrols went to Fahaheel industrial area and found him showing off, along with another man driving an SUV. Both were asked to stop, but did not and drove away, until they were forced to stop. The challenger and his friend were detained for questioning, while his car was impounded.
Neighbors’ row
A citizen locked his neighbor in a pigeon coop, before police arrested him on theft charges. A citizen who lives in Sabahiya heard his pigeons moving around, and when he checked on the matter, he found a man inside the coop attempting to catch them. He then discovered that the thief who caused him to lose many birds before is actually his neighbor, so he locked him in and called police. An Ahmadi police patrol went to the house, arrested the man and charged with theft. – Al-Rai
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STOCKHOLM: More than 300 wild reindeer have been killed by lighting in central Norway. The Norwegian Environment Agency has released eerie images showing a jumble of reindeer carcasses scattered across a small area on the Hardangervidda mountain plateau. The agency says 323 animals were killed, including 70 calves, in the lightning storm Friday. Agency spokesman Kjartan Knutsen told AP it’s not uncommon for reindeer or other wildlife to be killed by lightning strikes but this was an unusually deadly event.
“We have not heard about such numbers before,” he said yesterday. He said reindeer tend to stay very close to each other in bad weather, which could explain how so many were killed at once. “I don’t know if there were several lighting strikes,” he said. “But it happened in one moment.” Knutsen said the agency is now discussing what to do with the dead animals. Normally, they are just left where they are to let nature take its course, he said. Thousands of reindeer migrate across the barren Hardanangervidda plateau as the seasons change. – AP
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KUWAIT: Some MPs said international human rights organizations have asked the National Assembly to cancel a law criminalizing impersonating the opposite sex, or cross-dressing, and asked to discuss the issue during the upcoming term. They said the organizations believe the law contradicts human rights and general freedoms of individuals, and this harms Kuwaiti democracy. Sources said MPs will ignore the request and seek stricter punishment for this offence.
Labor transfer
Deputy Director General for foreign labor recruitment and employment at the Public Authority for Manpower (PAM) Ahmad Al-Mousa issued a circular regarding a previous condition that limits transferring work permits for workers on government contracts to other government contracts. The new circulation required inspecting the last two work permits that a worker obtained before his or her transfer transaction is carried out.
Labor grievances
Assistant Undersecretary for Administrative Affairs at the Ministry of Education Fahd Al-Ghais said the period to file grievances over lack of rewards of outstanding performance or financial discrepancies started yesterday. These can be filed on the ministry’s website for 60 days. He said the site is: http://www.moe.edu.kw/employee/pages/bonus.aspx
New patent
Kuwaiti doctor Abdelmohsen Abdelredha Al-Sahaf succeeded in receiving a patent for his Q80 innovation in the US, and by giving it this name, he wanted to have Kuwait’s name mentioned when it is used. Sahaf said the innovation can be used in most orthopedic and surgical intervention operations to treat pain. “We are in the preliminary stage of design, followed by production and marketing worldwide,” he added.
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Employment law
As I have mentioned previously, it is not easy traveling to another country that has a vastly different culture, environment, language, way of life and so on. So I can only imagine how hard it is to show up to your new job and not get paid your salary, or not have a residency, or do not have a contract and so on. Therefore I have put together questions from expat employees that are of concern. I would also like to mention that these cases are more common than you think.
No contract
Question: I have been working for a company for a few months and I have not been given any contract to sign so far. My work visa was stamped in February. In September, it will be three months since I joined this clinic. I have not been paid a single month’s salary yet. I have been asking about this to my employer almost every other day, but they just ask me to wait. In July, they only gave me KD 200 after I mentioned my difficulties at home. The salary mentioned in my shuoon (Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor) paper is KD 1,200 KD. I also have a salary account with a private bank here, but with no salary deposited so far. I find it very difficult to wait any longer and I wish to get my release from here and also my pending salary. Can you please advise me what I must do?
Fajer: It is so unfair that you are being treated this way and it is unfortunate that so many others are being treated the same way as well. Since you have already mentioned your salary amount in your work permit (others really do not know what their salary amount is), you know you have a work visa and a bank account and yet you are not receiving any salary. I suggest you go straight to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor and file a complaint. I should also mention that because you have not been paid your salary in a timely manner and you have the proof, you can cancel your work permit!
Probation period
Question: I found your email address on the internet and I have a question if you can answer it please. I am working as a teacher in a private high school. They stamped my residence last year, which expires in November this year. Every year, a contract is made for one year. It includes a two-month probation period. Can I find another job in those first two months, terminate the contract and transfer my residence too?
Fajer: Usually, if your contract is being renewed with the same employer, then there is no probation period, but since your contract includes a probation period and since the law allows differences with the Kuwait labor law to the benefit of the employee, then you can use this clause to your benefit and terminate your contract if you want to. Just make sure you check other clauses in your contract.
Held against her will
Question: I would like to ask regarding my sister’s situation with her employer. If she has only completed one year of her two-year contract, does she need to pay her employer for not completing the contract? Also, can her employer hold her against her will if she does not want to continue working with them? Last month, they had an agreement that my sister will be able to leave after this month, and they told her that they will not give her salary for this month because the money will go towards buying her a ticket back to our country, which is the Philippines. But then last night they told her that they will not let her go and told her to stay longer, but my sister refuses to work with them. One of her coworkers tried going back home, but they would not give him back his passport and also tell him to pay KD 1,000. Is this right? I hope for your kind consideration regarding my questions about the law here in Kuwait. Thank you.
Fajer: First of all, I have a policy against answering concerns for someone else. I need to speak to your sister personally because I need to know more information, like does she work for the private sector or not? I will assume she works for the private sector and try to answer your concerns.
It depends on her contract and what it says. There may be a three-month notice clause. If it is for a fixed term like you say, she needs to continue or pay damages, and by damages, I mean 3-months’ notice or her salary for the amount of months it takes them to find a replacement. I must make it clear that the amount is not something either party can assess by themselves. It is something done in court, and common practice is 3-months’ notice. You say that your sister had an agreement with them last month – was it on paper? If so, then it can be used in court to her benefit, and therefore she should not be worried.
By Attorney Fajer Ahmed
For any legal questions or queries, email ask@fajerthelawyer.com.
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